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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:00:52 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: Mahesh Pawar <Mahesh DOT Pawar AT mphasis DOT com>
Subject: Re: Starting postgres as root
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	Mahesh Pawar <Mahesh DOT Pawar AT mphasis DOT com>
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:01:38PM +0530, Mahesh Pawar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to start postgres while my linux m/c is booting.
> For testing I checked following commnd as root .
> 
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> 
> and got error
> 
> You cannot run initdb as root. Please log in (using, e.g., 'su')
> as the (unprivileged) user that will own the server process.
> 
> What changes i need to do

Ask on a Linux or postgresql related mailing list.  cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
isn't the right forum to ask this question.

Corinna

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