Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 17:19:55 +0100 From: Kurt Roeckx To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Teemu_Kanstr=E9n?= Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygrunsrv and postgresql Message-ID: <20011101171955.A3182@ping.be> References: <20011031130745.B1126@ping.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from teka@mail.student.oulu.fi on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:50:28PM +0200 On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:50:28PM +0200, Teemu Kanstrén wrote: > > > I have PostgreSQL installed under Cygwin and it was running fine as a > > > service on my NT. Then suddenly my NT hangs for no reason I can see and > > > I tried to shutdown from the task manager but even that didnt work. So > > > I just rebooted the computer with power off/power on. After that the > > > postmaster service no longer starts. > > > > You probably have a stale pid file. It's something very > > annoying when you don't do a proper shutdown, and don't have > > proper startup scripts. I'm still looking for a good solution to > > this. > > How do I fix this then? Just delete the postmaster.pid file. Kurt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/