Cannot Restart PostgreSQL-8.1.4

I had a problem with SQL-Ledger running on the local httpd that traced
back to some crufty old libpg.so* from 2003 and 2004 in /usr/local/lib. I
removed those (saved them, actually), ran ldconfig, then restarted both
httpd and postgresql. Unfortunately, the latter really has not started
despite indicating on the console that it has.

Postgres-8.1.4 installed.

Here're the libaries in /usr/lib/:

[rshepard(at)salmo ~]$ ll /usr/lib/libpq*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149728 2006-05-24 15:06 /usr/lib/libpq.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-07-06 17:19 /usr/lib/libpq.so ->
libpq.so.4.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-01-27 10:22 /usr/lib/libpq.so.3 ->
libpq.so.3.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 110586 2006-01-26 09:49 /usr/lib/libpq.so.3.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-07-06 17:19 /usr/lib/libpq.so.4 ->
libpq.so.4.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 111532 2006-05-24 15:06 /usr/lib/libpq.so.4.1*

And, in case postgres is looking in /usr/local/lib/ it has:

[rshepard(at)salmo ~]$ ll /usr/local/lib/libpq*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-01-24 10:38 /usr/local/lib/libpq.so ->
/usr/lib/libpq.so.4.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-01-24 10:35 /usr/local/lib/libpq.so.3 ->
/usr/lib/libpq.so.3.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-01-24 10:38 /usr/local/lib/libpq.so.4 ->
/usr/lib/libpq.so.4.1*

When I run '/etc/rc.d/rc.postgresql start' it returns 'Starting
PostgreSQL: ok', but '/etc/rc.d/rc.postgresql status' returns 'pg_ctl:
neither postmaster nor postgres running' which is true.

I don't know what I did to break the installation, but I would greatly
appreciate help getting it running again ASAP.

TIA,

Rich

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