Do you got "hosts: files dns" in your nsswitch.conf?
Otherwise , /etc/hosts won't be used.
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# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try:
# `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.
passwd: compat
group: compat
shadow: compat
hosts: files dns
networks: files
protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files
netgroup: nis
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Regards
Simon Chen.
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From: Ivan Dimitrov <dobber@bastun.net>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Sent: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:19:47 +0200
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] nscd [was] how do you run postgres without dns server
> Yes that is true too. I've checked it all. It apears that postgres
> tries to resolve only through dns'...:(
>
> I think that the problem is in the postgresql, but I can't reproduce
> the problem anymore, because I was forced to install a caching dns
> server, and I'm not allowed to play with it anymore (business must
> run).
>
> The nscd problem:
> I didn't post this before, because I thik this is not a postgres
> related problem, but after a few hours playing with it I couldn't
> fix the problem I have nscd + pgsql backend I have passwd:
> compat [NOTFOUND=continue SUCCESS=return] pgsql group:
> compat [NOTFOUND=continue SUCCESS=return] pgsql
>
> in /etc/nsswitch.conf
> The logic of this, from what I could understand from the
> documentation is: "Look in the standart files (/etc/passwd,
> /etc/group)" for username and groups, if not found, search in pgsql
> databasee, else return successfull"
>
> The problem is that when I stop the database and I try to `id
> realuser` it gives:
> # id root
> Could not connect to database
>
> The system is Debian sarge with packages:
> nscd 2.3.2.ds1-18
> libnss-pgsql1 1.0.2-1.2
> postgresql 7.4.5-3
>
> Íà 10.11.2004 16:08 Oliver Elphick íàïèñà:
> > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 12:15 +0200, Ivan Dimitrov wrote:
> > > Yes, it is there
> > > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > > but when i strace postmaster on startup it never looks in /etc/hosts
> >
> > Look at the "hosts:" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. It needs to have the
> > word "files" in there.
>
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