a question about postgresql server connection

Hi all,

I installed postgresql and when I typed ./createdb mydb, it gave error message:
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createdb: could not connect to database postgres: 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"?

Then I checked /etc/init.d file, and I got postgresql-8.3 in this directory, then I used $ sudo ./postgresql-8.3 start, which gave error message:
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LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Address already in use

HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and

retry\.

FATAL: could not open lock file "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": Permission denied

But before it, I have already add an line below the IPv4 connection, which looks like:
# IPv4 local connections:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
host all all 130.238.209.11/1 trust

I got my IP address from ifconfig. After that, I really do not know what should I do next step. I really appreciate any help, thank you in advance!

Best regards,
Dongyan

Dongyan Song, Msc
Uppsala University
Applied Biotechnology & Computational Science
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