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Re: Problem in running postgres



On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 10:10 +0600, Abu Zaher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currnetly running Debian Sid. When my system boots up, I get this
> error:
> 
> 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"? 

i may be wrong here, but...

i dont believe unix domain sockets have anything to do with tcp/ip.

> So i cant run postgresql. Moreover, while I try 2 ping localhost, it
> does not respond.

thus, the fact that you cannot ping is disjoint and not important to
getting postgres to work with unix domain sockets.

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