X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4470D21B.4000306@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 16:48:27 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: reinstall problem References: <63200.68.225.230.81.1148185325.squirrel@webmail.uci.edu> In-Reply-To: <63200.68.225.230.81.1148185325.squirrel@webmail.uci.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 snajiara@uci.edu wrote: > Hi, > recently, I reinstalled the Cygwin, because I wanted to have the new > postgresql 8.1, so I installed cygwin with the new version of postgresql. You're either leaving out some very important fact about why you felt it was necessary to reinstall Cygwin to get postgresql 8.1 or you don't understand how "setup.exe" works. Why didn't you just re-run "setup.exe" and allow it to upgrade your existing installation? > When I start up the cygserver and initialize the postgreSQL server, I'he > got this error... > - net start cygserver (works ok) > - /usr/sbin/initdb -D /var/postgresql/data (gave this error) > bash: /usr/sbin/initdb: No such file or directory > > any idea what's going on. Not really, no. Perhaps you'd have some better luck if you read and follow the problem reporting guidelines at the link below: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html A clear problem report may help. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/