From: | Rick Henry <rhenry(at)ac-technologies(dot)com> |
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To: | Daniel Péder <dpeder(at)infoset(dot)cz> |
Cc: | "'Phil Oelkers'" <Phil(dot)Oelkers(at)experian(dot)com>, "'Pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org'" <Pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | RE: [GENERAL] newbe question |
Date: | 1999-08-24 16:48:31 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.05.9908240940210.18987-100000@ensemble.ac-technologies.com |
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If you see that postmaster is indeed running, then most likely it was not
started with the -i switch. This switch is needed for tcp connections,
ie: port 5432. This is covered in the Client Connection Problems section
of the documentation.
HTH
Rick
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-2] Daniel Pder wrote:
>login as the root and at the linux prompt # type following
>=======example=======
>ps aux | grep postmaster
>=====================
>
>then You should get few lines containig one looking like that, notice the text "postmaster" at the end of line:
>=====example===========
>postgres 345 0.0 2.9 3376 904 ? S 12:31 0:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -
>=======================
>if not, then the backend server is not running - so it is not installed
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Phil Oelkers [SMTP:Phil(dot)Oelkers(at)experian(dot)com]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 6:00 PM
>To: Pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
>Subject: [GENERAL] newbe question
>
>Ok I'm and old pro at SQL (DB2, Access) but a total Linux/Unix idiot.
>
>I have Mandrake RedHat Linux and think I have postgresql installed.
>
>At the shell I type
>
>psql template1
>
>Linux complains
>
>connectDB() failed: Is postmaster running and accepting conections at
>'UNIX SOCKET' on port 5432
>
>
>Being a near complete Linux idiot I have no clue what this means.
>
>Anybody care to help?
>
>Thanks
>
>Phil Oelkers
>Database Analyst - Team O
>Experian DirectTech
>
>
>
>************
>
>
>************
>
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