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 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: Starting postgres as root Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:01:38 +0530 Message-ID: <3A970FE20927274D9F3236D08048F3272C88F4@mtrdex02.corp.mphasis.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Mahesh Pawar" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h9EDVxOk018086 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 Reagrds Mahesh -- 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/