[Babase] connecting to psql

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:28:52 +0000


On 10/05/2005 02:10:58 PM, Leah Gerber wrote:
> Thanks Karl, I had looked at the man command and the online  
> documentation but it didn't get me anywhere. I get the same error  
> message when using
> 
> [lgerber@papio scratch]$ psql -d  babase_test
> 
> psql: could not connect to server: Permission denied
>        Is the server running locally and accepting
>        connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

Yah.  What you tried _would_ work on a regular postgres
installation, but Hunter's backup system requires that
everybody specify a hostname one way or another (IIRC
_if_ we're going to also have database passwords, which
we need.)

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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