On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:37:46AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 23 10:30, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > Reini Urban wrote: > > >Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: > > >>Reini Urban wrote: > > >>>Installing as service is quite hard without sysbash, > > >>>[snip] > > > > So it is not possible to run this as service? > > What is the problem with the method used in postgres 7? > > [snip] > > Good questions. Ideally I'd assume that the new postgresql just works > as a replacement for the old postgresql so that existing service > installations using cygrunsrv are not suddenly broken.
To be specific, why doesn't the following (excerpt) from my PostgreSQL 7.x README work for 8.x? $ cygserver-config $ net user postgres $password /add /fullname:postgres /comment:'PostgreSQL user account' /homedir:"$(cygpath -w /home/postgres)" $ mkpasswd -l -u postgres >>/etc/passwd $ cmd /c secpol.msc # grant postgres "Log on as a service" user right $ cygrunsrv --install postmaster --path /usr/bin/postmaster --args "-D /var/postgresql/data -i" --dep cygserver --termsig INT --user postgres --shutdown ... Thanks, Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6