Re: Server Crash: Issues Re-starting Postgres

From: john melesky <list(at)phaedrusdeinus(dot)org>
To: Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
Cc: pdxpug(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Server Crash: Issues Re-starting Postgres
Date: 2014-01-07 19:29:39
Message-ID: 20140107192939.GA12251@phaedrusdeinus.org
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 11:00:01AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> As user postgres I try to start the server and see this:
>
> postgres(at)salmo:~$ postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &
> [1] 8453
>
> But, when I try to access a database:
>
> psql: could not connect to server: Permission denied
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

What are you seeing in your logfile? Not just ">logfile", but any
logfile configured in your postgresql.conf.

-john

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