Sorry, just a fool tip, cause I haven't seen that you already done the pg_ctl stop && pg_ctl start ...
(I mean, did you reload your conf settings?) Regards, Guido > > > I used you perl script and found the error => > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# perl relacl.pl > > > DBI connect('dbname=template1;port=5432','postgres',...) failed: FATAL: > > IDENT > > > authentication failed for user "postgres" at relacl.pl line 21 > > > Error in connect to DBI:Pg:dbname=template1;port=5432: > > > > > > > > Excellent - we know what is going on now! > > > > > > > And my pg_hba.conf is > > > > > > # IPv4-style local connections: > > > host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust > > > host all all 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 trust > > > > > > trusted for every user. > > > > Ok, what I think has happened is that there is another Pg installation > > (or another initdb'ed cluster) on this machine that you are accidentally > > talking to. Try > > > > $ rpm -qa|grep -i postgres > > > > which will spot another software installation, you may just have to > > search for files called pg_hba.conf to find another initdb'ed cluster.... > > > > This other installation should have a pg_hba.conf that looks something > > like : > > > > local all all ident > > host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 ident > > > > So a bit of detective work is in order :-) > > > > Mark > After being a detector I found that > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa|grep -i postgres > postgresql-7.4.5-3.1.tlc > postgresql-python-7.4.5-3.1.tlc > postgresql-jdbc-7.4.5-3.1.tlc > postgresql-tcl-7.4.5-3.1.tlc > postgresql-server-7.4.5-3.1.tlc > postgresql-libs-7.4.5-3.1.tlc > postgresql-docs-7.4.5-3.1.tlc > postgresql-odbc-7.3-8.1.tlc > postgresql-pl-7.4.5-3.1.tlc > postgresql-test-7.4.5-3.1.tlc > postgresql-contrib-7.4.5-3.1.tlc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# > > no other pg installation except the pgsql for windows in samba folder which I > think it isn't matter ,is it? > No other pg being run. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ps ax|grep postmaster > 2228 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data > 3308 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep postmaster > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# > > Is it possible that it is related to pg_ident.conf ? > > Any comment please. > Amrit,Thailand > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])