On Thursday 16 April 2009 2:04:19 am SongDongyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your suggestion, I set my listen_address = ' * ', and I want
> to connect to local server.
>
> After I modified listen_address from localhost to *, the error message left
> to one line:
> ***************************************************************************
>************* FATAL: could not open lock file "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock":
> Permission denied
>
> But still, I cannot link to server.
>
> Thank you again!
>
> Best regards,
> Dongyan
>
Per Toms suggestion, you need to look at the permissions on the /tmp directory
to see why Postgres cannot open a lock file there.
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Adrian Klaver
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