On Wednesday 28 February 2007 08:12, Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [rshepard@salmo ~]$ psql -h localhost -U postgres aesi > Welcome to psql 8.1.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. > > Type: \copyright for distribution terms > \h for help with SQL commands > \? for help with psql commands > \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query > \q to quit > > aesi=# \q > [rshepard@salmo ~]$ psql aesi > psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused > Is the server running locally and accepting > connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? > Something happened to your /tmp directory after PostgreSQL started up. Stop the postmaster, clean out the socket in /tmp, and restart the postmaster, and it will likely fix it up. Then you can investigate your boot process to see what's going wrong. -- "Remember when computers were frustrating because they did exactly what you told them to? That actually seems sort of quaint now." --J.D. Baldwin
