Re: installation problems

> I installed PGSqlwinna1 executable on a windows 2000 machine.
> Everything  works fine as the txt file Postgres7.3.1 txt doc found in
> the Cygwin  directory. In the fourth step
>
> the following command will not run
>
> cygrunsrv --install postmaster --path /usr/bin/postmaster --args "-D
> /usr/share/postgresql/data -i"
> --dep ipc-daemon --termsig INT --user postgres --shutdown
>
> error message is path doesnot point to a valid executable
>
> I have tried 1. changing to /bin/postmaster instead but get the same
> results. I would really appreciate some help. I would like to run
> postgresql on this  windows machine.

Funny, but cygwin's "symlink" mechanism is pretty poor. Rather than using a
symlink, copy postgres.exe to postmaster.exe and see if that works.