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 Message-ID: <376EC5EF.677CE218@uni-duesseldorf.de> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 01:08:31 +0200 From: Stipe Tolj Organization: Department of Economical Computer Science, University of Cologne, Germany X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [de]C-NECCK (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joost Kraaijeveld CC: "'Christian Jullien'" , "Cygwin@Sourceware. Cygnus. Com (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Postgresql 6. 5 cygwin ports available ? References: <1F8B49DD9100D31195FC00A0C94989FE0CA2@obelix> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Then I try to setup Postgres with initdb using 'postgres' or my valid > > account 'jullien' but got : > > > > NOUSER > > > > > > This is because initdb uses pg_id which in turn calls > > getpwnam. I guess that > > I also have to create > > an /etc/passwd. After doing that, > > > > initdb --username=my-login works better, > Yep, that is what a complete installation of the Andy Piper tools do. but you may setup the /etc/passwd and /etc/groups files without the usr-local package from Andy using the basic utilities provided by Cygwin's full.exe setup. Regards, Stipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows" http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/ Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com