Re: starting up database server + user postgres - Mailing list pgsql-novice

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:06:19 -0400,
  Jennifer Liu <jennliu@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a novice for using Postgres and Linux - any help or suggestions would be really appreciated, thanks!!!  I'm
havingtrouble logging on as the postgres user.  I wanted to 
> create a database, so I tried...
>
> root# /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test
> 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.5432"?
> createdb: database creation failed

This suggests the postmaster hasn't been started.