Re: postgres not allowing new database?

"Trewern, Ben" wrote:

   You need to create a database first and connect to it.

   Best to do

   createdb testdb

   at the command line


below is error i get when trying to do above command
i realize i need to start postmaster but all trys not successful
as from docs i can't tell how to get my template1 created
( in /usr/local/data......... )
as that is required apparantly for postmaster..........
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[handiman@localhost /root]$ createdb handiman
psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
        Is the postmaster running at 'localhost'
        and accepting connections on Unix socket '5432'?
createdb: database creation failed