> i just successfully followed the instructions from
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/postgres/portNT.html
>
> make is ok
> initdb is ok
> running ipc-daemon and postmaster is ok
>
> but when i want to start psql, createuser or createdb i get
> the following
> error message:
>
> psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
> Is the postmaster running at 'localhost'
> and accepting connections on Unix socket '5432'?
>
> any ideas on whats going wrong here?
use "-h localhost" as a command line parameter for the tools (psql,
createdb,...)
Dan