Re: Postgres

["J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <fsmla@xinara.org>]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 18:17:24 -0600, Dan Roscoe wrote:
> Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: IDENT
> authentication failed for user "dan" in /var/www/boards/db/postgres7.php
> on line 79
> phpBB : Critical Error
> 
> Could not connect to the database
> 
> which would lead someone to think that Postgres is not running,

No. It should lead someone to think that Postgres is running, but is
refusing the connection attempt on the basis of its access control settings
in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf; possibly because you haven't installed an
identd (which the postgresql package Suggests:).

HTH,
Ray
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