"sam karush" <sk418@rivah.net> writes:
> $ ./postmaster -D /boot/home/database
> LOG: could not translate host name "localhost", service "5432" to address:=
> unknown name or service
> WARNING: could not create listen socket for "localhost"
> FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets
It looks to me like you don't have DNS correctly configured on that
machine. Every machine should be able to resolve "localhost" as
"127.0.0.1" --- that's standard. Look at name resolution settings,
/etc/resolv.conf, that sort of thing.
(BTW, what in the heck is "zeta"? I don't think it's really BeOS;
we dropped support for that thing several PG versions back.)
regards, tom lane