Re: installing cywin postgreSQL

Becky,

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 07:44:42PM -0700, Dankel, Rebecca wrote:
> I'm following your readme for installing postgresql on cygwin.  I installed
> cygipc.  When I tried net start ipc-daemon, I get message 2186 "The service
> is not responding to a control function".

Did you forget to add the Cygwin bin (e.g. C:\Cygwin\bin) to your
system PATH and reboot?  If not, then ipc-daemon will not start.

> Then when I tried initdb it got hung up after
> Creating template1 database in /usr/share/postgresql/data/base/1

If ipc-daemon is not running, then initdb (and postmaster) will hang.

> Can you help me or should I post to one of the cygwin message boards ? Which
> would be the best message board to post to ?

In the future, please post to pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org or
cygwin@cygwin.com as appropriate so others can benefit too.

Thanks,
Jason

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