Re: can't run on TCP/IP ports

Patrick Raphael wrote:
  >
  >I figured out the problem, postmaster when run as postgres didn't have
  >write permissions to /var/run/postgresql directory (where the Debian
  >version puts its socket files) and therefore didn't have permission to
  >open the socket. .

What Debian version of postgresql?  The installation should have set the
permissions on the directory to

drwxr-xr-x    2 postgres postgres     1024 Feb  3 21:11 /var/run/postgresql

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