Re:

Well, did you do a -ls -la /tmp ? The socket file is hidden.

You could try /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql status

to see is there any postmaster still running or ps ax | grep postm

Or simply /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql stop

And tell your sysadmin the last one is the correct way of shutting down
postgresql.

Jesus.

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Mehta, Ashok wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am running postgres on RedHat Linux It was running fine and our sysadmin
> added a scsi tape device to the kernel and rebooted the machine so the
> postmaster was killed with -9 signal and after that when I start postmaster
> I get
>  FATAL: StreamServerPort: bind() failed: Permission denied
>  Is another postmaster already running on that port?
>  If not, remove socket node (/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432) and retry.
>   postmaster: cannot create UNIX stream port
>
> I have rebooted the machine since then and there is no file in /tmp
> directory to be removed. I am absolutly positive that  another postmaster is
> not running and that file does not exist.
>
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Ashok
>