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Re: cygrunsrv and postgresql
- To: Kurt Roeckx <Q at ping dot be>
- Subject: Re: cygrunsrv and postgresql
- From: Teemu Kanstrén <teka at mail dot student dot oulu dot fi>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 17:50:28 +0200 (EET)
- cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
> > I have PostgreSQL installed under Cygwin and it was running fine as a
> > service on my NT. Then suddenly my NT hangs for no reason I can see and
> > I tried to shutdown from the task manager but even that didnt work. So
> > I just rebooted the computer with power off/power on. After that the
> > postmaster service no longer starts.
>
> You probably have a stale pid file. It's something very
> annoying when you don't do a proper shutdown, and don't have
> proper startup scripts. I'm still looking for a good solution to
> this.
How do I fix this then?
> > $ cygrunsrv --install postmaster --path /usr/bin/postmaster -a "-i"
> > --termsig INT --dep ipc-daemon --shutdown --user postgres
> It might also help if you tell it to use a log file, redirect
> stdout (and stderr?) to some file, and it should also give a clue why
> postmaster refuses to start.
And how do I do this :) ?
-Teemu
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