I am start/stopping the server by using sudo service postgresql start/stop/restart/status. When I run any of these commands, I do not get anything. No confirmation, except for the status, it does show the server is running. But otherwise, all I see is that it just goes to a new line with no confirmation or errors. Jason L. Amerson -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 04:53 PM To: Jason L. Amerson <drjason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: 'Steve Crawford' <scrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; 'PostgreSQL' <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Remote Connection Help On 11/21/19 1:14 PM, Jason L. Amerson wrote: > 1) I have attached a screenshot of the output of "ps ax | grep post" on the Ubuntu machine. > > 2) Since I was new to PostgreSQL, I followed a tutorial online. I did install from source which I already knew how to do. I got the source package from PostgreSQL. I basically followed these instructions: > Additional questions that came to mind: 1) How are you starting/stopping server? 2) What do you see on the terminal when you restart the server? I see: aklaver@ranger:~> sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql11 restart Restarting PostgreSQL: ok aklaver@ranger:~> -2019-11-21 13:49:30.104 PST-0LOG: listening on IPv6 address "::1", port 5432 -2019-11-21 13:49:30.104 PST-0LOG: listening on IPv4 address "127.0.0.1", port 5432 -2019-11-21 13:49:30.193 PST-0LOG: listening on Unix socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" -2019-11-21 13:49:30.322 PST-0LOG: redirecting log output to logging collector process -2019-11-21 13:49:30.322 PST-0HINT: Future log output will appear in directory "log". -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx