Re: Newbie: problem Connecting to Server

what command name would it being running under in my boxes service tree.

<cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com> wrote in message
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> "Ferindo Middleton Jr" <ferindo.middleton@verizon.net> wrote:
> > I'm running Redhat Linux 8. I have registration to the Redhat
> > Network so I'm probably running the latest version of postgresql
> > available. I also have Redhat Databse v2.1 installed, but whenever I
> > try to start a session, I get the following error message:
> >
> > 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"?
> >
> > Please help me configure my system so that I can connect and begin to
use
> > postgresql.
>
> Have you checked to see if it is actually running?  I rather expect
> that it isn't.
>
> I think RHAT distributes GUIfied tools to manage services started via
> init.d, so that even if you are afraid of Unix, you should be able to
> see what it's doing.
>
> And it's quite unlikely that RHAT has packaged the very latest
> version; the fact that they are numbering things independently is
> quite irritating as it makes it more difficult to ascertain what
> version it actually is.
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