Re: Connections?

Archibald Zimonyi wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I get the following error:
>
> psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
>         Is the postmaster running locally
>         and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432'?
>
> when I try to connect after having started the postmaster. The
> problem is that unless I make /tmp writeable for everyone
> postgres is not allowed to create the .s.PGSQL.5432 file. Is
> there any way to make postmaster create this file anywhere else?
   The  /tmp  directory  is supposed to be writable by everyone,   and should have the sticky bit set.  Alot  of  unix
software  expects that, not only Postgres.
 


Jan

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