On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:09:11PM -0700, bruce wrote: > > i'm installing postgres and have a few questions... i can login/su as the > user 'postgres' and then 'postmaster -i -p 5432 -D /var/lib/psql/data/'. > this starts the postgres app, and i can access it from a website. > > however, if i attempt to do 'service postgresql start' while i'm 'root', the > postgres db/app still starts, but i'm unable to connect to it from the > website. the same thing occurs if i try to start the postgres app from the > 'gnome' gui... What error do you get when you try to connect? What's different between the two situations? One possibility is that you're making a TCP connection that succeeds in the first case because -i tells the postmaster to listen for network connections, but fails in the second case because the postmaster isn't started with -i and postgresql.conf isn't configured for network connections. You could check this with netstat, lsof, etc. What version of PostgreSQL are you using? In 8.0 look at the listen_addresses setting in postgresql.conf; in 7.4 and earlier look at tcpip_socket and virtual_host. In any version see also the port setting. If you change postgresql.conf, be sure to restart the postmaster. For more information about postgresql.conf, see "Run-time Configuration" in the "Server Run-time Environment" chapter of the documentation. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
