Re: createdb errors and more

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Reno Bladergroen
<reno.bladergroen@telenet.be> wrote:
> Today I restarted to install postgres from scratch, because I have a lot of installation problems. To summarize my
system:
> I have two xubuntu logins: a "superuser" and postgres. The latter one is a user with basic privileges.
> I installed pgsql according to the manual, generated a data folder, changed ownership to postgres, switched user
postgresand initialized the database. starting the database is also successful (status says running). 
> But now: when I use the command createdb test, I get the error "can't connect to database postgres: could not connect
toserver: no such file or directory, Is the server running locally and accepting .... etc." 

Ooops, you left out the part where you tell us what you did.  Seeing
your createdb switches etc would help a lot.  Better to give us too
much info than not enough.