Dinesh Chandra 12108 wrote: > After restarting PostgreSQL Server, I am unable to connect postgres from putty, I am getting error > > 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"? > > While postgres is already running and also I am able to connect databases from PGAdmin tool but not from command prompt. You know that a local connection only works when you are logged in on the database machine, right? Is your database listening on port 5432? Connect as user "postgres" and run the following queries: SHOW port; SHOW unix_socket_directories; That will show the port and the directories where UNIX sockets are created. You can use a socket directory name with the -h option of psql. Yours, Laurenz Albe