Re: Debian and Postgres

On 5/4/16, rob stone <floriparob@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 14:51 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:

>> I ask because this looks somewhat similar to this thread:
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAM3xazWDA6asEDDYHcKF_5oSFP4SZj8
>> taVHwSF68wM=VMY7V-A@mail.gmail.com
>>
>> where the solution:
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAM3xazWDA6asEDDYHcKF_5oSFP4SZj8
>> taVHwSF68wM=VMY7V-A@mail.gmail.com
>>
>> was:
>>
>> "That was indeed the root cause. The /etc/hosts file on the server
>> had
>> incorrect permissions which caused localhost to not resolve."
>
> /etc/hosts has a file date of Dec 19 2014.
>
> Everything worked fine yesterday. Absolutely nothing has been altered
> except some packages have been removed and none of the log files can
> give me a clue as to which ones.

For reference Debian (and I assume Ubuntu) has a little package called
etckeeper - I find it very handy in such situations.