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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- 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/
