what command name would it being running under in my boxes service tree. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Ferindo Middleton Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running Redhat Linux 8. I have registration to the Redhat > > Network so I'm probably running the latest version of postgresql > > available. I also have Redhat Databse v2.1 installed, but whenever I > > try to start a session, I get the following error message: > > > > psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory > > Is the server running locally and accepting > > connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? > > > > Please help me configure my system so that I can connect and begin to use > > postgresql. > > Have you checked to see if it is actually running? I rather expect > that it isn't. > > I think RHAT distributes GUIfied tools to manage services started via > init.d, so that even if you are afraid of Unix, you should be able to > see what it's doing. > > And it's quite unlikely that RHAT has packaged the very latest > version; the fact that they are numbering things independently is > quite irritating as it makes it more difficult to ascertain what > version it actually is. > -- > output = ("cbbrowne" "@acm.org") > http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/rdbms.html > "...while I know many people who emphatically believe in > reincarnation, I have never met or read one who could satisfactorily > explain population growth." -- Spider Robinson
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