X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4470D21B.4000306@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 16:48:27 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: reinstall problem References: <63200 DOT 68 DOT 225 DOT 230 DOT 81 DOT 1148185325 DOT squirrel AT webmail DOT uci DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <63200.68.225.230.81.1148185325.squirrel@webmail.uci.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com snajiara AT uci DOT edu wrote: > Hi, > recently, I reinstalled the Cygwin, because I wanted to have the new > postgresql 8.1, so I installed cygwin with the new version of postgresql. You're either leaving out some very important fact about why you felt it was necessary to reinstall Cygwin to get postgresql 8.1 or you don't understand how "setup.exe" works. Why didn't you just re-run "setup.exe" and allow it to upgrade your existing installation? > When I start up the cygserver and initialize the postgreSQL server, I'he > got this error... > - net start cygserver (works ok) > - /usr/sbin/initdb -D /var/postgresql/data (gave this error) > bash: /usr/sbin/initdb: No such file or directory > > any idea what's going on. Not really, no. Perhaps you'd have some better luck if you read and follow the problem reporting guidelines at the link below: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html A clear problem report may help. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/