Обсуждение: starting/running postgres...
hi. i'm installing postgres and have a few questions... i can login/su as the user 'postgres' and then 'postmaster -i -p 5432 -D /var/lib/psql/data/'. this starts the postgres app, and i can access it from a website. however, if i attempt to do 'service postgresql start' while i'm 'root', the postgres db/app still starts, but i'm unable to connect to it from the website. the same thing occurs if i try to start the postgres app from the 'gnome' gui... the website tries to access the db as user 'gforge'. this user is different than the user 'postgres' or the user 'root'. as i said, this works if i start postegres from the command line as user 'postgres'. any ides/thoughts/etc... thanks bruce bedouglas@earthlink.net ps. im unable to use the 'services postgresql start' as user 'postgres'.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:09:11PM -0700, bruce wrote: > > i'm installing postgres and have a few questions... i can login/su as the > user 'postgres' and then 'postmaster -i -p 5432 -D /var/lib/psql/data/'. > this starts the postgres app, and i can access it from a website. > > however, if i attempt to do 'service postgresql start' while i'm 'root', the > postgres db/app still starts, but i'm unable to connect to it from the > website. the same thing occurs if i try to start the postgres app from the > 'gnome' gui... What error do you get when you try to connect? What's different between the two situations? One possibility is that you're making a TCP connection that succeeds in the first case because -i tells the postmaster to listen for network connections, but fails in the second case because the postmaster isn't started with -i and postgresql.conf isn't configured for network connections. You could check this with netstat, lsof, etc. What version of PostgreSQL are you using? In 8.0 look at the listen_addresses setting in postgresql.conf; in 7.4 and earlier look at tcpip_socket and virtual_host. In any version see also the port setting. If you change postgresql.conf, be sure to restart the postmaster. For more information about postgresql.conf, see "Run-time Configuration" in the "Server Run-time Environment" chapter of the documentation. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
[Please copy the mailing list on replies so others can contribute to and learn from discussions.] On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 06:39:20PM -0700, bruce wrote: > > i do have a question though. short of modifying the init.d/postgresql file > with the "-i" option, is there another better way to resolve the issue... If that is indeed the problem then edit postgresql.conf and change the appropriate settings (see my previous message for the names of settings to look at). Here are links to the relevant sections in the 8.0 and 7.4 documentation; if you're using a different version then see that version's documentation. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/runtime-config.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/runtime-config.html -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/