[postgis] My postgres can not start???

[Norman Vine]

Tony JIANG writes:
>
>But I can not change the directory's permssion with the chmod 
>in the cygwin windows. It's weird.
>
>Is there anybody who has changed the permission before in 
>cygwin? Or there is something other wrong causing this problem.

If you are on a FAT partition I do not know if you can change permissions
as there really aren't any

if you are on a NTSEC partition you need to log in as someone in
the local Admistrator group since the directory is owned by them
then see 'chmod --help'

The bigger question is why is the data directory in the Admistrator 's 
home directory ?   Did you just install Cygwin for the Administrator
and not for everybody.  If so you will probably only be able to use
the database when logged in as the Administrator

The postgresql data directory is normally
/ usr / share / postgres-7.1.3 / data

Have you read 
/ usr / docs / Cygwin / Postgress-4.1.3.README ???

Cheers

Norman

>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Ramsey" 
>
>> Is it that your data directory has the wrong permissions? :)
>>
>> > "TONY J.Y." wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi, all
>> >
>> > I got a problem for starting my postmaster. I am not sure what's the
>> > reason.
>> > Can you give me a hint? Thank you very much
>> >
>> > Environment: Win2K professional. cygwin, ipc-daemon
>> >
>> > Result:
>> >
>> > ========================================================
>> >
>> > $ ipc-daemon &
>> > [1] 108
>> > $ ps
>> >       PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
>> >       108     788     108        764  con  500 17:21:53
>> > /usr/local/bin/ipc-daemo
>> > $ postmaster -i -D /home/Administrator/data
>> > FATAL 1:  data directory /home/Administrator/data has group or world
>> > access; permissions should be u=rwx (0700)
>> >
>> > ========================================================
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Tony

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