Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:00:52 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Mahesh Pawar Subject: Re: Starting postgres as root Message-ID: <20031014150052.GD14344@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Mahesh Pawar References: <3A970FE20927274D9F3236D08048F3272C88F4@mtrdex02.corp.mphasis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3A970FE20927274D9F3236D08048F3272C88F4@mtrdex02.corp.mphasis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:01:38PM +0530, Mahesh Pawar wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to start postgres while my linux m/c is booting. > For testing I checked following commnd as root . > > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data > > and got error > > You cannot run initdb as root. Please log in (using, e.g., 'su') > as the (unprivileged) user that will own the server process. > > What changes i need to do Ask on a Linux or postgresql related mailing list. cygwin@cygwin.com isn't the right forum to ask this question. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/