On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Reno Bladergroen <reno.bladergroen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Today I restarted to install postgres from scratch, because I have a lot of installation problems. To summarize my system: > I have two xubuntu logins: a "superuser" and postgres. The latter one is a user with basic privileges. > I installed pgsql according to the manual, generated a data folder, changed ownership to postgres, switched user postgres and initialized the database. starting the database is also successful (status says running). > But now: when I use the command createdb test, I get the error "can't connect to database postgres: could not connect to server: no such file or directory, Is the server running locally and accepting .... etc." Ooops, you left out the part where you tell us what you did. Seeing your createdb switches etc would help a lot. Better to give us too much info than not enough. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general