Hi, Thank you for all suggestions, I fixed this problem by change the owner of /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock file. # chown postgres /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock and it is done. Best wishes, Dongyan Adrian Klaver wrote: > > On Thursday 16 April 2009 2:04:19 am SongDongyan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thank you for your suggestion, I set my listen_address = ' * ', and I >> want >> to connect to local server. >> >> After I modified listen_address from localhost to *, the error message >> left >> to one line: >> *************************************************************************** >>************* FATAL: could not open lock file "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": >> Permission denied >> >> But still, I cannot link to server. >> >> Thank you again! >> >> Best regards, >> Dongyan >> > > Per Toms suggestion, you need to look at the permissions on the /tmp > directory > to see why Postgres cannot open a lock file there. > > > -- > 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 > > ----- Dongyan Song, Msc Medical informatics, Uppsala University, Sweden -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/a-question-about-postgresql-server-connection-tp23059116p23081602.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
