Re: Error message "psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory"

> sudo su - _postgres /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/bin/initdb -U postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/data --encoding=UTF8 --locale=en_US
> sudo su - _postgres /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/bin/pg_ctl start -D /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/data
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> Although I don't get an error message, I don't have the feeling that it started the server. There is still nothing in the process list, and a normal "psql" results in the same message as before "psql: could not connect…"
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> So sorry for bothering you guys… just being really frustrated now…
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> If you have any ideas, please let me know… :-)

I just went back to the postgres documentation [1] (actually reading all google results on the error message one after the other) and tried out what was said there (adapted to my conditions):

sudo -u _postgres /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/data

and suddenly postgres runs….

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/server-start.html