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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 01:08:31 +0200
From: Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>
Organization: Department of Economical Computer Science, University of Cologne, 
              Germany
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To: Joost Kraaijeveld <JKraaijeveld AT Askesis DOT nl>
CC: "'Christian Jullien'" <Eligis AT wanadoo DOT fr>,
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Subject: Re: Postgresql 6. 5 cygwin ports available ?
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> > Then I try to setup Postgres with initdb using 'postgres' or my valid
> > account 'jullien' but got :
> >
> > NOUSER
> >
> >
> > This is because initdb uses pg_id which in turn calls
> > getpwnam. I guess that
> > I also have to create
> > an /etc/passwd. After doing that,
> >
> > initdb --username=my-login works better,
> Yep, that is what a complete installation of the Andy Piper tools do.

but you may setup the /etc/passwd and /etc/groups files without the
usr-local package from Andy using the basic utilities provided by Cygwin's
full.exe setup.

Regards,
Stipe

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Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>

Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows"
http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/

Department of Economical Computer Science
University of Cologne, Germany





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