On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:06:19 -0400,
Jennifer Liu <jennliu@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a novice for using Postgres and Linux - any help or suggestions would be really appreciated, thanks!!! I'm
havingtrouble logging on as the postgres user. I wanted to
> create a database, so I tried...
>
> root# /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test
> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
> createdb: database creation failed
This suggests the postmaster hasn't been started.