Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/06/03:51:39
David Garamond wrote:
>
> I'm trying to bundle postgresql + cygwin in a single distribution for my
> clients. The goal is that a user can just extract the .zip file and run
> postgresql there (ipc-daemon2 + pg_ctl start; initdb need not be done
> because a zipped 'virgin' data dir will also be provided). Target
> platforms are Win98SE and WinXP Pro. The target machines do not have
> Cygwin installed.
>
> It's pretty simple to do that. I just put all the files under
> postgresql-7.4.1\bin\, including many Cygwin DLLs, several needed
> commands like grep, basename, cat, chmod, sed, etc. And of course,
> postgres.exe, postmaster.exe (which I copied from postgres.exe;
> originally it was a symlink to postgres), and ipc-daemon2.exe.
>
> However, ipc-daemon2.exe seems to always look for /tmp (which is
> c:\cygwin\tmp). On Win98, it seems to be able to use c:\tmp if
> c:\cygwin\tmp doesn't exist, but on WinXP Pro it can't.
>
> Rather than creating c:\cygwin\tmp, can I make ipc-daemon2 put
> MultiFileMsg* and MultiFileShm* in some other place?
You know you can mount /tmp to any directory, right? Since you
presumably have a startup script to kick things off, why not just do
something like the following, assuming the current dir is your install
dir:
mkdir tmp
mount -b "`cygpath -am .`" /tmp
If you know the full pathname of the directory you can use that instead
of cygpath, i.e.
mount -b "c:/program files/whatever/tmp" /tmp
You should probably do this for /bin as well. See the manpage for more.
Brian
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