Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:22:58 -0500 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: Failed: Installing Postgresql under Cygwin on win98se In-reply-to: <3C896DAA.2B8D0879@htw-dresden.de> To: Tom Lauren Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-followup-to: Tom Lauren , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-id: <20020310202258.GC1416@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i References: <3C86F4B2 DOT 1DB8A60D AT htw-dresden DOT de> <4738 DOT 1015483349 AT www49 DOT gmx DOT net> <3C87898B DOT 653C8699 AT htw-dresden DOT de> <3C879A91 DOT 5080602 AT htw-dresden DOT de> <3C8821A8 DOT 885FDF8B AT htw-dresden DOT de> <20020308123458 DOT GA564 AT tishler DOT net> <3C896DAA DOT 2B8D0879 AT htw-dresden DOT de> Tom, On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 03:04:26AM +0100, Tom Lauren wrote: > $ ls -l /bin/postgres > > gives me this: > > ?rw-r--r-- 0 0 unknown 2706432 Jan 1 1970 /bin/postgres > > where "unknown" is my win-username (ok might be confusing..) > 1970 looks funny, but this ?rw-r--r-- makes me nervous... > and chmod doesn´t work, so I have no idea how to change that!? The cause of the above is your root cause. Fix this and I presume that PostgreSQL will work too. Sorry, but I have never seen the above problem. I don't have access to Windows 9x/ME, so maybe someone else who does can help... Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/