On Monday 09 March 2009 4:11:49 pm JohnD wrote: > Hi, > > I have two "identical" servers running CentOS 5.2 with PostgreSQL 8.3.5 > installed on both. Prior to a reboot this morning, I was able to > connect, remotely, to both of them and doing telnet <serve-rname> 5432 > brought up a prompt for them as well. > > However, I am now in the unfortunate situation of not being able to > connect remotely to one particular server and cannot for the life of me > figure out why I am getting a connection refused: > > Connection refused. Check that the hostname and port are correct and > that the postmaster is accepting TCP/IP connections. > > I can ssh into the server and do a psql <db-name> from the > /var/lib/pgsql command prompt, as user postgres. But, when I try to use > a different user (psql -U user -p <db-name>), from the same prompt, I get: This psql -U user -p <db-name> should be psql -U user -d <db-name> > > psql: 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.0"? > > When I look into the /tmp directory for the domain socket, I see: > > srwxrwxrwx 1 postgres postgres 0 Mar 9 17:44 .s.PGSQL.5432 > -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 25 Mar 9 17:44 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock > > Also, here is the relevant piece of my pg_hba.conf file: > > local all all trust > # IPv4 local connections: > host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust > host all all 192.168.0.0/16 md5 > host all all 172.16.0.0/16 password # for a > VMWare instance > > # IPv6 local connections: > host all all ::1/128 trust > > And, lastly, I use the following script as the postgres user to start > PostgreSQL from the command prompt, manually: > > #!/bin/bash > > ARGV=$1 > PG_HOME=/var/lib/pgsql > PG_WORK_DIR=$PG_HOME/data > > if [ "$1" = "start" ] > then > pg_ctl -D $PG_WORK_DIR -l logfile start > elif [ "$1" = "stop" ] > then > pg_ctl -D $PG_WORK_DIR stop > fi > > Nothing, that I am aware of, has changed on this server that would > prevent the remote connection. I have both SELinux and iptables > disabled (off by default) since this is inside a firewall on a home > network and is not available to the outside world. > > Any idea why I am no longer able to connect? > > Thanks for any and all help. > > John -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
