Re: Problem with initdb failing

Paul,

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:33:04PM -0600, Paul R. Sand wrote:
> I changed the group ownership of the files to "Administrators". Is
> this what you meant by run mkgroup? Or, do I need to do anything else?

Yes, I meant run mkgroup:

    $ mkgroup --help
    Usage: mkgroup [OPTION]... [domain]...
    Print /etc/group file to stdout
    [snip]

> I also set the modes of the files as suggested (I had tried this
> previously too) -- /tmp /usr/bin /usr/log.
                                    ^^^

/usr or /var?

> I searched all over for a postmaster.log file and can not find one (I
> have not been able to get to the step that I start the postmaster yet,
> so this might explain not having the log, but I don't know if the
> "install" command should have been logged..)  The only .log files I
> found were from the cygwin install ....

It should be in /var/log/postmaster.log.

> I still get the following when I tried to start ipc-daemon2 and
> postmaster:
>
> paul_sand@mverify3 /var/log
> $ cygrunsrv -S ipc-daemon2
> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
> The service has not been started.

Is the Cygwin bin directory (e.g., C:\cygwin\bin) in your system path?

Jason

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