Please try to run the pgagent in debug mode and see what is going wrong. Please refer this link for the details: http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/dev/pgagent-install.html
Read "pgagent DEBUG <connection-sting>" in the section "Service installation on Windows". Hope that will help you. *--* *Thanks & Regards,* * * *Ashesh Vashi* *EnterpriseDB INDIA: *Enterprise Postgres Company<http://www.enterprisedb.com> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Knoch, Sandra < sandra.kn...@ipa.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Hi there > > > > I try to use pgAgent as a scheduling service on a Windows machine. I could > install everything right and also implemented my schedule with a batch > script in pgAgent. My problem is that I also installed pgAgent as a service > on the windows server 2003 but I am not able to start the service. Every > time I start the service I get the message: the service started and then > stopped … because it has nothing to do…. Something like that. So the service > is not running which means I do not get the automatical backup of my > database I would like to have. Does anybody know why the service is always > stopping automatically or how I can prevent the service from being stopped? > Thank you very much for your help! > > > > Regards > > Sandra Knoch > > > > >
