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: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 12:39:24 -0400 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: cygwin v1.3.11-3: problems with postgres In-reply-to: To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-followup-to: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <20020703163924.GI1776@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: Oliver, On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 08:33:01AM -0500, Oliver Enseling wrote: > I am trying to run postgres under cygwin and I just downloaded cygwin > v.1.3.11-3 this morning. I am getting the following message when > trying to run a initdb: > > I have no name!@OENSELING03D ~ The above and... > $ initdb > [snip] > > This was the error message issued by that program: > /usr/bin/postgres: invalid current euid 500 and the above indicate that you do *not* have a valid /etc/passwd and /etc/group file. Use mkpasswd and mkgroup to regenerate them. > Does anyone kow wht's going on? I think so -- see above. Jason -- 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/