| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Kristian Skrede Gleditsch" <kgleditsch(at)ucsd(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: |
| Date: | 2002-05-03 14:18:00 |
| Message-ID: | 6820.1020435480@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Kristian Skrede Gleditsch" <kgleditsch(at)ucsd(dot)edu> writes:
> I am trying to install PostgreSQL 7.2 under Redhat
> The installation seems to work without problems. However, when I try to
> start the program I encounter the following error message
>> psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
>> Is the postmaster running locally
>> and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432'?
> There is no such file in the /tmp/ directory.
It sounds like you didn't start the postmaster. pg_ctl is the usual
manual method for that. I can't tell from this whether you've installed
any boot scripts to start the postmaster at system boot --- but even if
you did, they'd not do anything until you reboot.
regards, tom lane
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