Re: ipc-daemon as service on Windows XP

Mike,

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 04:11:29PM -0500, Michael Adler wrote:
> This does not seem to work on Windows XP (meanwhile, other services like
> cron and inetd work fine on XP).

Is this XP Home Edition or Professional?  What kind of errors do you get?
Anything in the Event Log?

> I think the ipc-daemon is the problem. The only way I get it to work is by
> typing:
>
> $ ipc-daemon&
> $ pg_ctl start

Maybe ipc-daemon depends on another service that starts up slower or in
a different order on XP.  Search the Cygwin mailing for service start up
problems.  Maybe one of the solutions will help you?

> But I would prefer that it start automatically in the background (as a
> "service").
>
> Btw, I noticed that service processes are all owed by user "Everyone" on
> XP. In Win2k, they were owned by "SYSTEM".

Hmm.  You may want to report this to the Cygwin list.

> Has anyone used PostgreSQL/cygipc as a system "service" in Windows XP? If
> so, how?

Sorry, I don't have XP, so I can't help you more.

Jason