James B. Byrne wrote:
>I have discovered that the default init script distributed with
>pgsql v8.1 sets the listening port to 5432 but does not enable
>tcp/ip connections. One must add the -i switch to the invocation
>line in the script. I am not sure if this is an oversight or
>whether there is another way to tell postmaster to start with
>tcp/ip listening enabled that I am unaware of. However, I thought
>that this information might be of interest to anyone else running a
>non-distro version of pgsql.
>
>Regards,
>Jim
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Jim, also be aware that there is a non-password login from root on that
distro, as well as the CentOS version. I found out the hard way after
being compromised by some idiot portscanning me. No damage, but thought
it odd to have a password-less service open to the world.
Sam
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