não consigo "levantar" o postgresql

[Marcelo Neres dos Santos <marceloneres@ieg.com.br>]

Pessoal, ao tentar iniciar o postgresql to recebndo a seguinte msg de erro:

# /etc/init.d/postgresql start
Starting PostgreSQL postmaster
postmaster succefully started
# createuser fulano
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/readpgenv: /etc/porgresql/postgresql.env: No such file or directory
Shall the new user be allowed to create databases? y
Shall the new user be allowed to create more new users? y
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
	Is the server running locally and accepting
	connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s./PGSQL.5432"?
createuser: creation of user "fulano" failed
#

alguém pode me ajudar??

[]'s
Marcelo.