On Freitag 08 Mai 2009 Jan Muhammad wrote:
> After having various error message in starting PostgreSQL version
> 8.2.11; finally uninstalled/deleted it. Now trying my luck on 8.3.7,
> but things haven't changed for me. When I try to check that
> postmaster server is running or not? I get the following error: $
> postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> LOG: could not translate host name "localhost", service "5432" to
> address: Name or service not known WARNING: could not create listen
> socket for "localhost"
> FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets
> .....................................................................
>... Similarly when I try to start postgres server with
> [postgres@callisto postgresql-8.3.7]$ pg_ctl -D pg8 start
> postgres cannot access the server configuration file
> "/usr/local/pgsql/postgresql-8.3.7/pg8/postgresql.conf": No such file
> or directory
This smells a lot like SElinux. Do you use SElinux? Try disabling it.
mfg zmi
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