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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 17:08:43 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygrunsrv and postgresql
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111011749430.9449-100000@tuomi.oulu.fi>; from teka@mail.student.oulu.fi on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:50:28PM +0200

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:50:28PM +0200, Teemu Kanstr?n wrote:
> > >  I have PostgreSQL installed under Cygwin and it was running fine as a
> > > service on my NT. Then suddenly my NT hangs for no reason I can see and
> > > I tried to shutdown from the task manager but even that didnt work. So
> > > I just rebooted the computer with power off/power on. After that the
> > > postmaster service no longer starts.
> >
> > You probably have a stale pid file.  It's something very
> > annoying when you don't do a proper shutdown, and don't have
> > proper startup scripts.  I'm still looking for a good solution to
> > this.
> 
> How do I fix this then?
> 
> > > $ cygrunsrv --install postmaster --path /usr/bin/postmaster -a "-i"
> > > --termsig INT --dep ipc-daemon --shutdown --user postgres
> > It might also help if you tell it to use a log file, redirect
> > stdout (and stderr?) to some file, and it should also give a clue why
> > postmaster refuses to start.
> 
> And how do I do this :) ?

By reading the README?

/usr/doc/Cygwin/cygrunsrv.README

Corinna

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