It sounds like you don't have the postmaster running.
Use:
ps ax | grep postmaster
to check. If the postmaster isn't running refer to INSTALL for
instructions.
Hope this helps,
-DEJ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Goodwin [SMTP:goodrob@shaw.wave.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 1998 2:13 AM
> To: pgsql-questions@postgreSQL.org
> Subject: [QUESTIONS] postmaster causing errors??
>
> Hi there,
>
> I've just installed postgres-6.3.2-3 on Red Hat Linux with the RPM's.
> It seemed to go ok but I'm having some trouble establishing any kind
> of
> connection to the database. Here is the error I get:
>
> [postgres@benway pgsql]$ createuser luser
> Connection to database 'template1' failed.
> connectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and accepting
> connections
> at 'UNIX Socket' on port '5432'?
> createuser: database access failed.
>
> It must be something wrong with my system but I'm not sure what this
> means? can somebody give me a hand?
>
> thanks,
>
> rob
>
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