Re: Can't find postmaster

[Jason Tishler <Jason(dot)Tishler(at)dothill(dot)com>]

James,

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:12:25PM +0100, james_beetlebrow(at)ednet(dot)co(dot)uk wrote:
> I'm trying to run postgres under cygwin. None of the binary distributions of 
> tried contain the postmaster program. What am I doing wrong?

postmaster is a symlink:

    $ tar -tvzf postgresql-7.1-2.tar.gz | fgrep postmaster
    lrw-r--r-- jt/Domain Users       0 2001-04-16 09:00:44 usr/bin/postmaster -> postgres.exe

Are you trying to run it from cmd.exe/command.com?  If so, then you must
do something like the following:

    C:\> bash -c "postmaster -D /usr/share/postgresql/data"

Did you extract the binary distributions with something like WinZip?
If so, then the symlink was destroyed.

In bash, you can recreate with:

    $ rm /usr/bin/postmaster
    $ ln -s postgres.exe /usr/bin/postmaster

or in cmd.exe/command.com:

    C:\> attrib +s C:\Cygwin\bin\postmaster

assuming that you installed Cygwin in C:\Cygwin.

Jason

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