Hi, I gave restricted permissions to the postgres user on the C: drive. After doing this, I could run initdb without issue. Something doesn't sit right with me with giving access to C: drive, but it works. If anyone has any insights on what this problem is/was and how I can get around it without granting access to C:, I would appreciate it. Thanks for all your help. Alex. > > adurrant@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > > > Thanks for getting back to me. > > > > Yes, I have a "postgres" limited account that will own the files. (This was the one created by the installer.) In > > order to ensure the this user has access/full control to "C:\Program Files\Postgresql\8.1", I used the "cacls" > > command to edit the access control list and add postgres:f. > > i.e. I ran > > cacls "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1" /t /e /g postgres:f > > > > (I've discovered this morning that I can boot in safe mode to get the Security tab on folder properties in XP Home. > > I'll check that this evening to see if it looks correct.) > > > > However, to continue with your suggestion, after running the cacls statment above, I did log in as postgres and then > > ran: > > initd -D "C:\Program Files\Postgresql\8.1\data" ... > > Yes, I did include the double quotes (due to the space in "Program Files") but it was still the same result. "could > > not create directory "C:/Program Files": File exists". > > Hmm. That doesn't make any sense to me. I'm guessing it's a different > error code behind the scenes. I suppose you can issue > cd "C:/Program Files" > dir > successfully as user postgres? > > If so, try forward slashes to match the output of the error message: > "C:/Program Files/Postgresql/..." > > If that's still not working and none of the Windows guys pop up, I'll > try and reproduce it on my XP-Pro laptop. > -- > Richard Huxton > Archonet Ltd
