From: | "Ferindo Middleton Jr" <ferindo(dot)middleton(at)verizon(dot)net> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Newbie: problem Connecting to Server |
Date: | 2003-03-31 06:28:55 |
Message-ID: | HeRha.17164$gp1.7478@nwrddc02.gnilink.net |
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what command name would it being running under in my boxes service tree.
<cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com> wrote in message
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> "Ferindo Middleton Jr" <ferindo(dot)middleton(at)verizon(dot)net> wrote:
> > I'm running Redhat Linux 8. I have registration to the Redhat
> > Network so I'm probably running the latest version of postgresql
> > available. I also have Redhat Databse v2.1 installed, but whenever I
> > try to start a session, I get the following error message:
> >
> > psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> > Is the server running locally and accepting
> > connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
> >
> > Please help me configure my system so that I can connect and begin to
use
> > postgresql.
>
> Have you checked to see if it is actually running? I rather expect
> that it isn't.
>
> I think RHAT distributes GUIfied tools to manage services started via
> init.d, so that even if you are afraid of Unix, you should be able to
> see what it's doing.
>
> And it's quite unlikely that RHAT has packaged the very latest
> version; the fact that they are numbering things independently is
> quite irritating as it makes it more difficult to ascertain what
> version it actually is.
> --
> output = ("cbbrowne" "@acm.org")
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/rdbms.html
> "...while I know many people who emphatically believe in
> reincarnation, I have never met or read one who could satisfactorily
> explain population growth." -- Spider Robinson
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