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| From: | "Ian Oxley" <ijoxley(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | <pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | initdb 'no such file or directory' error |
| Date: | 2005-07-11 12:00:32 |
| Message-ID: | 20050711120312.57E4552882@svr1.postgresql.org |
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Hi
I am having trouble running initdb on Cygwin/Windows XP Pro: the error I am
getting is as follows:
$ initdb -D /home/pgdata
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
"postgres".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
creating directory /home/pgdata... ok
creating directory /home/pgdata/base... ok
creating directory /home/pgdata/global... ok
creating directory /home/pgdata/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory /home/pgdata/pg_clog... ok
cp: cannot stat '/dev/null.exe': no such file or directory
Having searched the lists I cannot seem to find anything relating to this
last line: cp: cannot stat '/dev/null.exe': no such file or directory
Any help that anyone can provide would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Ian
| From: | Erik Brunar <ebrunar(at)voicesignal(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: initdb 'no such file or directory' error |
| Date: | 2005-07-14 13:52:59 |
| Message-ID: | 42D66E3B.8010007@voicesignal.com |
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I commented this line out in initdb:
# cp /dev/null "$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf || exit_nicely
and in its stead used:
touch "$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf || exit_nicely
and this worked. However, things went wrong afterwards when trying to start the postmaster with my new install of Cygwin 1.5.18-1, so I re-installed 1.5.17-1, and things have been fine again.
Erik
Ian Oxley wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>
> I am having trouble running initdb on Cygwin/Windows XP Pro: the error I am
> getting is as follows:
>
>
>
> $ initdb -D /home/pgdata
>
>
>
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> "postgres".
>
> This user must also own the server process.
>
>
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
>
>
> creating directory /home/pgdata... ok
>
> creating directory /home/pgdata/base... ok
>
> creating directory /home/pgdata/global... ok
>
> creating directory /home/pgdata/pg_xlog... ok
>
> creating directory /home/pgdata/pg_clog... ok
>
> cp: cannot stat '/dev/null.exe': no such file or directory
>
>
>
> Having searched the lists I cannot seem to find anything relating to this
> last line: cp: cannot stat '/dev/null.exe': no such file or directory
>
>
>
> Any help that anyone can provide would be much appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Ian
>
>