Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: "Christian Jullien" To: "Joost Kraaijeveld" Cc: "Cygwin@Sourceware. Cygnus. Com (E-mail)" Subject: RE: Postgresql 6. 5 cygwin ports available ? Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 07:54:54 +0200 Message-ID: <000001beba18$413c87e0$020039c1@eligis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <1F8B49DD9100D31195FC00A0C94989FE0CA0@obelix> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Trying to make Postgresql running on my NT box, I make 'make install' Then I try to setup Postgres with initdb using 'postgres' or my valid account 'jullien' but got : 38:/usr/local/pgsql>initdb --username=postgres [: NOUSER: bad number Valid username not given. You must specify the username for the Postgres superuser for the database system you are initializing, either with the --username option or by default to the USER environment variable. 39:/usr/local/pgsql>initdb --username=jullien [: NOUSER: bad number Valid username not given. You must specify the username for the Postgres superuser for the database system you are initializing, either with the --username option or by default to the USER environment variable. I must confess that I still not have install the full Andy Piper, since I want to know what is the _minimal_ requirement to run Postgresql. You said that I need users and usergroups. Running 'users' (from full.exe cygwin tools ?) says that /var/run/utmp did'nt exist, where did it come from ? I created and empty one without more success. Eligis: Christian Jullien (OOP consultant) 10, RUE REJANE - 95120 ERMONT (France) Eligis@wanadoo.fr - +33 130.72.98.20 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com