Re: connection refused problem

Modify the pg_ctl script and it should run the postmaster.
What you do is add the -i flag there. Alternatively you can add
to pg_hba.conf file i think it is TCP = yes. I am not sure but you can
check the documentation about that one but the -i flag on postmaster
definately works

HTH

Darren Ferguson

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Phil Glatz wrote:

> I bringing up PostgreSQL 7.1.3 on a Free BSD 4.5 system, installed from
> ports, using defaults.  I copied the sample versions of pg_hba.conf and
> postgresql.conf to new files, removing the .sample part.
>
> This command works fine:
> psql -U pgsql database
>
> but if I specify a hostname:
> psql -U pgsql -h localhost cn
>
> I get:
>    psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
>            Is the postmaster running (with -i) at 'localhost'
>            and accepting connections on TCP/IP port 5432?
>
>
> I have local hosts defined in /etc/hosts, and in /tmp I see:
> srwxrwxrwx   1 pgsql  wheel     0 May 30 10:15 .s.PGSQL.5432=
> -rw-------   1 pgsql  wheel    28 May 30 10:15 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock
>
>
> Sorry for such an obviously dumb question, I didn't see anything in the FAQ
> other than "add the -i flag to postmaster", but I didn't see how to do
> that.  The core line in my startup script is:
>
>    '[ -d ${PGDATA} ] && exec /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl start -s -w -l ~pgsql/errlog'
>
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