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Re: Seeking Installation Instructions for Postgresql on Cygwin
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:33:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Seeking Installation Instructions for Postgresql on Cygwin
- References: <45F4CF61.2030108@lists.cichon.com> <45F4D442.59E09C1@dessent.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Public Mailing Lists wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to setup a Postgresql server on Windows-XP/Cygwin. I've done
> > this a couple of times on Linux, and I'm experiencing some difficulties
> > on Windows.
> >
> > I have installed the packages postgresql (version 8.0.7-1) and
> > cygrunserv (version 1.17-1), and I have syslog and init running.
> >
> > If I'm trying to run /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql initdb, and I'm getting
> > the following error messages:
>
> "Bad system call" usually indicates that you need cygserver installed
> and running. And reading /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-*.README
> confirms this. Read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygserver.README for details.
And it's an FAQ:
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.ipc>.
Igor
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