srinivas reddy wrote: > psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused > Is the server running locally and accepting > connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? > Are you running the postmaster? You first need to do something like: ipc-daemon & initdb -D /pgd postmaster -i -D /pgd & See the readme for more info. If you already are make sure there is not already such a file and that you have permissions to the tmp directory - Stuart