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On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Public Mailing Lists wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to setup a Postgresql server on Windows-XP/Cygwin. I've done
> > this a couple of times on Linux, and I'm experiencing some difficulties
> > on Windows.
> >
> > I have installed the packages postgresql (version 8.0.7-1) and
> > cygrunserv (version 1.17-1), and I have syslog and init running.
> >
> > If I'm trying to run /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql initdb, and I'm getting
> > the following error messages:
>
> "Bad system call" usually indicates that you need cygserver installed
> and running.  And reading /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-*.README
> confirms this.  Read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygserver.README for details.

And it's an FAQ:
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.ipc>.
	Igor
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