Do you have the postmaster configured to listen on the port as opposed
to only the local socket? (Either the -i command line option or
an option in the postgres.conf should do it I believe)
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Sam Wun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I finished running ./010.pgsql.sh start, then tried to run my php
> script, it reports the following err msg:
>
> Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: connectDBStart() --
> connect() failed: Connection refused Is the postmaster
> running (with -i) at 'fastline' and accepting
> connections on TCP/IP port 5432? in
> /usr/local/apache/phplib/db_pgsql.inc on line 40
>
> Database error: Link-ID == false, pconnect failed
> PostgreSQL Error: 0 ()
> Session halted.
>
> I found that port 5432 is not being listening.
>
> The following is the output of ps -axf | grep pg command:
>
> root@fastline /<2>etc/rc.d # ps -axf | grep pg
> 623 p2 I 0:00.03 /usr/local/bin/postmaster -D
> /usr/local/pgsql/data (postgres)
>
> My question is why port# 5432 is not running if the pgsql.sh start
> running successfuly? unless the pgsql.sh start command failed.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestion about this problem?
