On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:05:17PM -0500, Andrew Stewart wrote:
> I have had postgres working perfectly up until recently. Now suddenly I
> get an error when trying to run postgres:
>
> % psql
> psql: FATAL: No pg_hba.conf entry for host localhost, user postgres,
> database postgres
>
> % postmaster &
> LOG: could not bind Unix socket: Address already in use
> HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not,
> remove socket file "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" and retry.
>
> Anyone have an ideas?
Postgres is running, no need to start postmaster.
Read the psql message, read the chapter
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/client-authentication.html
and configure pg_hba.conf to meet your needs.
"pg_ctl reload" afterwards.
Peter