thanks to those who pointed out the mistake in my /etc/hosts, but unfortunately, that was an error in my re-typing of it. the file itself is correct (supposedly). but i'm still having trouble with _something_ (else?) the symptoms include gnorpm not allowing root to do anything with gnorpm (viz below:) [root]# gnorpm GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. and linuxconf is not allowing me to activate changes to users. it gives the following message: invalid PID file: /var/run/postmaster.pid which i have traced to it actually failing when trying to start postgres. (which i tried myself) viz: [root]# /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S85postgresql start Starting postgresql service: /usr/bin/postmaster does not find the database system. Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "/var/lib/pgsql", but unable to open file with pathname "/var/lib/pgsql/base/template1/pg_class". No data directory -- can't proceed. postmaster [] do i just 'touch' this directory/file ? it seems a bit strange to me. i havent deleted anything... i'm not sure if my machine should be able to ping itself when it's not on a network, because it cannot, anyway :-( -- susie
