David Garamond wrote: > > I'm trying to bundle postgresql + cygwin in a single distribution for my > clients. The goal is that a user can just extract the .zip file and run > postgresql there (ipc-daemon2 + pg_ctl start; initdb need not be done > because a zipped 'virgin' data dir will also be provided). Target > platforms are Win98SE and WinXP Pro. The target machines do not have > Cygwin installed. > > It's pretty simple to do that. I just put all the files under > postgresql-7.4.1\bin\, including many Cygwin DLLs, several needed > commands like grep, basename, cat, chmod, sed, etc. And of course, > postgres.exe, postmaster.exe (which I copied from postgres.exe; > originally it was a symlink to postgres), and ipc-daemon2.exe. > > However, ipc-daemon2.exe seems to always look for /tmp (which is > c:\cygwin\tmp). On Win98, it seems to be able to use c:\tmp if > c:\cygwin\tmp doesn't exist, but on WinXP Pro it can't. > > Rather than creating c:\cygwin\tmp, can I make ipc-daemon2 put > MultiFileMsg* and MultiFileShm* in some other place?
You know you can mount /tmp to any directory, right? Since you presumably have a startup script to kick things off, why not just do something like the following, assuming the current dir is your install dir: mkdir tmp mount -b "`cygpath -am .`" /tmp If you know the full pathname of the directory you can use that instead of cygpath, i.e. mount -b "c:/program files/whatever/tmp" /tmp You should probably do this for /bin as well. See the manpage for more. Brian -- 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/
