Hi all, I've found in the net a lot of problems similar to mine, but not the solution for my case: when I executed pg_dump against a database from a script (that will be executed by cron) I got the following error: pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "webcalendardb" failed: 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"? and the line the script is executing is the following: /usr/local/bin/pg_dump -f /backup/sedeldap/postgresql//webcalendardb2010_05_25.sql -h sedeldapa -U postgres webcalendardb and of course, if executed interactively, the above line works. The pg_dump is for 8.4.0 (installed from freebsd ports). Moreover, if in the script I add the option -F t than the script complains that: pg_dump: too many command-line arguments (first is "webcalendardb") and of course the following: /usr/local/bin/pg_dump -F t-f /backup/sedeldap/postgresql//webcalendardb2010_05_25.sql -h sedeldap -U postgres webcalendardb works. Any idea? The only thing I suspect is that I change the IFS in the shell script, but I also restore it back before trying to pg_dump. Luca -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general