On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 04:54:15PM +0100, Oluwatope Akinniyi wrote: > On Fedora as: > 192.168.0.253:5432:hms:sysdba:xxxxx > where hms is the database and sysdba the username; > > I have a the ~/.pgpass inside the home of user tope (i.e. /home/tope). > I tried with > > $ psql I wonder if you should be using 127.0.0.1:5432:hms:sysdba:xxxxx instead ... Or rather, change your psql line to be $ psql -h 192.168.0.253 -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>) "At least to kernel hackers, who really are human, despite occasional rumors to the contrary" (LWN.net) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org