Re: Troubles with installation of cygrunsrv

you're right, It's xp professional :(

I really don't know which the diferences are for cygwin under xp home &
xp professional.
But it seems that you have just created a user in cygwin, just like in
any other unix. You should be able to edit /etc/passwd and erase the
last line.

You should try to find out the your user name (id -un), and then
stopping postmaster service (net stop postmaster), removing it
(cygrunsrv -remove postmaster), changing the ownership of postgresql
directory (chown -R <your_user_name> /var/postgres).
Then reboot your system, and after that, reinstall the postmaster
service (using the <your_user_name> this time).

I guess it should work this way.

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:16, Fabio Patocchi wrote:

> Ciao Franco,
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> Thanx for your hints!
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> Probably you have installed winxp professional!
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> In the meantime I read that the xp-home doesn’t have user right
> management so I’m not able to initialize postgresql as postgres user.
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> Unfortunately I’ve already created the postgres user account with
> “mkpasswd –l –u postgress >>/etc/passwd”, so I cannot access the
> “usr/share/postgesql/data” directory anymore. Do you know how I could
> remove the postgres user account?
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> Grazie Fabio
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Franco Bruno Borghesi [mailto:franco(at)akyasociados(dot)com(dot)ar]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. November 2003 22:56
> An: fabio(at)patocchi(dot)ch
> Cc: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Betreff: Re: [CYGWIN] Troubles with installation of cygrunsrv
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> have you run initdb -D /var/pgsql/data?
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> I'm using ipc-daemon2 and it works just fine (on winxp too), so it's
> not the problem.
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> There is no utility (as far as I know) to remove services from the scm
> on windows (I mean included with windows).
> But you can remove ipc-daemon2 with
> $ipc-daemon2 --remove-service
> and postmaster with
> $cygrunsrv --remove postmaster
> Remember to reboot before you try to reinstall any of these services.
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> I would try stopping and starting ipc-daemon2 from the scm, and if it
> works ok, then I would try to start postgres.
> If you have problems starting ipc-daemon2 you should check the event
> viewer (i guess) to find out what happened.
> If you have problems starting postgresql, try
> $/usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/pgsql/data
> from the console to see any error messages.
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> Hope it helps.
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> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 05:42, Fabio Patocchi wrote:
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> Hi
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> I tried to install the postmaster on XP Home Edition but it doesn’t
> work. The service starts and stops right after.
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> I loaded it that way: cygrunsrv --install postmaster --path
> /usr/bin/postmaster --args "-D /var/psql/data -i" --dep ipc-daemon2
> --termsig INT –shutdown
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> Other question...I couldn’t find the “ipc-daemon” service so I loaded
> “ipc-daemon2”. Is that the problem? What is the difference between
> both of them?
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> How can I delete a service in the service list on XP?
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> Thanx for your help!
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> Fabio Patocchi
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