X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <1189782531.24064.8.camel@mercury.sprymusic> <31b7d2790709140815q69ff65ffo931da15326c8efb7@mail.gmail.com> <5abc24640709140824l300a47d6g16180aa66bab75ea@mail.gmail.com> Subject: RE: Whither /dev/null ? Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:28:49 +0100 Message-ID: <025401c7f6e3$f2bfe5a0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <5abc24640709140824l300a47d6g16180aa66bab75ea@mail.gmail.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 14 September 2007 16:24, Andrew Louie wrote: >> Did you check the Cygwin User's Guide? >> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html >> >> It sort of explains it. >> >> -Jason >> > > I wonder if this problem I'm having with postgresql is related: This line of reasoning is just a bit like saying "Oh, you had a problem with a file on your C: drive... I have a problem involving files on my C: drive, I wonder if it's the same". > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_tblspc ... ok > selecting default max_connections ... sh: line 1: 3612 Bad system > call "/usr/sbin/postgres.exe" -boot -x0 -F -c > shared_buffers=500 -c max_connections=100 template1 < "/dev/null" > > "/dev/null" 2>&1 > > I wonder if the Bad system call is due to trying to read/write to /dev/null. No, why should it be? /dev/null works perfectly. . . . OK, I won't be mean. The "bad system call" error is probably a result of you not having the 'server' option set in your CYGWIN environment variable. See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/