Re: First time installing

# systemctl start postgresql
Failed to start postgresql.service: Unit not found.

Am I missing a step?

-----Original Message-----
From: Frederick . [mailto:nagemnna@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:39 PM
To: Ron Watkins
Cc: pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: First time installing

Make sure the service is running.

As root:   systemctl start postgresql

As a user:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/server-start.html

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Ron Watkins <rwatki@gmail.com> wrote:
> Trying to follow documentation. I  installed RPM’s but unable to
> connect to server…
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> CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
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> Package postgresql10-10.2-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64 already installed and
> latest version
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> Package postgresql10-server-10.2-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64 already installed
> and latest version
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> # su - postgres
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> -bash-4.2$ psql
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> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
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>         Is the server running locally and accepting
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>         connections on Unix domain socket
> "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
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> There are no files under /var/run/post*
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> What am I missing here?