[SL] Re: could not connect to server

From: "Keith Mastin" <kmastin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <sql-ledger-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 23:39:26 -0400 (EDT)

Forehead slapper...

> On Friday 30 May 2003 01:48 pm, Keith Mastin wrote:
>> This just happened all of a sudden for no apparent reason. I tried
>> logging into the system today and got this message after the login.pl
>> screen: Error!
>> could not connect to server: No such file or directory
>
> Is your server running?
>
> $ ps -ef | grep postmaster
>
> If not, restart it.  You may have a stale pid file, so make sure that if
> your  server is not running, remove the
> /var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid file.   Use the 'locate' command if
> it's not in this directory (it's dependant on  your distribution.

this was it, got it going. Thanks... I was looking in /var/run for the pid
file, and since it wasn't there happily overlooked it.

-- 
Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
(416)696 6070

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