Re: sygserver fails with "failed to create named pipe,

A much easier way to start services, stop services, or see if they are
running etc. under XP Pro is to do Start->control panel->Administrative
functions->Services. Cygwin Cygserver should be in the list and so
should postmaster.

Did you run the one time configuration script for cygserver?

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 02:23, David Riggs wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> Thanks to earlier help from you all, I went back and installed the proper
> cygserver for the new 7.4.3. But I cannot get it to run. I see in the
> README that :
>
> ""On Windows NT/2000/XP or 2003, you should always run Cygserver as a
> service under LocalSystem account. This is the way it is installed
> for you by the /usr/bin/cygserver-config script."
>
> I am running WinXP Pro. But I do not know how to do this (sorry, a real
> Windows beginner), could someone please talk me through it? I presume this
> is the cause of the failure described below.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> David
>
> ps,
>
> I have been through the readme for cygserver and postgresql install and
> checked permissions and added both CYGWIN and CYGSERVER to Windows system
> environment variable with value of server. If I just try to start up cygserver:
>
> $cygserver <i.e. started with no parameters>
> cygserver: Initialization complete. Waiting for requests.
> cygserver: failed to create named pipe: is the daemon already running?
> cygserver: fatal error on IPC transport: closing down"
>
>
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