Re: 'Weird' errors

thanks for the prompt response
i took the stack of bad calls and placed them in a .sh and they all ran flawlessly..
there is a delta in there somewhere

I have a followup (if i may)
I am able to get past the initdb  but when i run the postgres on the data folder I get no postgresql.conf found specifically
postgres cannot access the server configuration file "/cygdrive/c/Postgres/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf'

is there a foolproof way that I will allow postgres to access postgresql.conf?

thanks!
Martin Gainty
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> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:35:30 +0100
> From: dev@archonet.com
> To: mgainty@hotmail.com
> CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 'Weird' errors
>
> Martin Gainty wrote:
> > experiencing weird 14001 errors .no logs not evt nothing to go by so i completely rebuilt the cygwin postgres
> >
> > ran cygwin
> > then i ran the initdb as follows
> >
> > $ ./postgresql-8.4.1/src/bin/initdb/initdb.exe -D /pgsql/data
> > 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.
> > The default database encoding has accordingly been set to SQL_ASCII.
> > The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
> >
> > creating directory /pgsql/data ... ok
> > creating subdirectories ... ok
> > selecting default max_connections ... sh: line 1: 2752 Bad system call
> > "/cygdrive/c/Postgres/postgresql-8.4.1/src/bin/initdb/postgres.exe" --boot -x0 -
> > F -c max_connections=100 -c shared_buffers=1000 < "/dev/null" > "/dev/null" 2>&1
>
> Googling "cygwin bad system call" gets me this:
> http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~nichol/cruftscraper/cygwinenv.shtml
>
> The CYGWIN environment variable
> ...
> (no)server - if set, allows client applications to use the Cygserver
> facilities. This option must be enabled explicitely on the client side,
> otherwise your applications won't be able to use the XSI IPC function
> calls (msgget, semget, shmget, and friends) successfully. These function
> calls will return with ENOSYS, "Bad system call".
>
> Looks like this environment setting differs in the two environments.
>
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> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
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