I'm running Redhat Linux 8. I have registration to the Redhat Network so
I'm probably running the latest version of postgre sql available. I also
have Redhat Databse v2.1 installed, but whenever I try to start a session,
I get the following error message:

psql: 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"?

Please help me configure my system so that I can connect and begin to use
postgresql.


Mon, 31 Mar 2003 01:25:55 GMT
"Ferindo Middleton Jr" <ferindo.middleton@verizon.net>
Newbie: problem Connecting to Server
"Ferindo Middleton Jr" <ferindo.middleton@verizon.net> wrote:
> I'm running Redhat Linux 8. I have registration to the Redhat
> Network so I'm probably running the latest version of postgresql
> available. I also have Redhat Databse v2.1 installed, but whenever I
> try to start a session, I get the following error message:
>
> psql: 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"?
>
> Please help me configure my system so that I can connect and begin to use
> postgresql.

Have you checked to see if it is actually running?  I rather expect
that it isn't.

I think RHAT distributes GUIfied tools to manage services started via
init.d, so that even if you are afraid of Unix, you should be able to
see what it's doing.

And it's quite unlikely that RHAT has packaged the very latest
version; the fact that they are numbering things independently is
quite irritating as it makes it more difficult to ascertain what
version it actually is.
-- 
output = ("cbbrowne" "@acm.org")
http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/rdbms.html
"...while   I   know  many   people   who   emphatically  believe   in
reincarnation, I have  never met or read one  who could satisfactorily
explain population growth." -- Spider Robinson


Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:57:03 -0500
cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com
Re: Newbie: problem Connecting to Server
what command name would it being running under in my boxes service tree.

<cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com> wrote in message
news:m3y92wwb68.fsf@chvatal.cbbrowne.com...
> "Ferindo Middleton Jr" <ferindo.middleton@verizon.net> wrote:
> > I'm running Redhat Linux 8. I have registration to the Redhat
> > Network so I'm probably running the latest version of postgresql
> > available. I also have Redhat Databse v2.1 installed, but whenever I
> > try to start a session, I get the following error message:
> >
> > psql: 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"?
> >
> > Please help me configure my system so that I can connect and begin to
use
> > postgresql.
>
> Have you checked to see if it is actually running?  I rather expect
> that it isn't.
>
> I think RHAT distributes GUIfied tools to manage services started via
> init.d, so that even if you are afraid of Unix, you should be able to
> see what it's doing.
>
> And it's quite unlikely that RHAT has packaged the very latest
> version; the fact that they are numbering things independently is
> quite irritating as it makes it more difficult to ascertain what
> version it actually is.
> --
> output = ("cbbrowne" "@acm.org")
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/rdbms.html
> "...while   I   know  many   people   who   emphatically  believe   in
> reincarnation, I have  never met or read one  who could satisfactorily
> explain population growth." -- Spider Robinson


Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:28:55 GMT
"Ferindo Middleton Jr" <ferindo.middleton@verizon.net>
Re: Newbie: problem Connecting to Server