"Thomas F. O'Connell" <tfo@sitening.com> writes:
> When I restart, everything seems to come up fine with the exception
> that postmaster starts in a state such that it doesn't seem to be
> accepting connections (either over UNIX or TCP/IP). As best I can
> tell, it is using the init script to start postgres because
> pg_autovacuum tries to start, too, and dies shortly after the box
> comes up because it, too, cannot connect to postgres.
hmmm ... maybe you need to start your DNS server first?
> Also, is there any way to get more status out of a postmaster if one
> cannot connect to it?
One thing I'd look into is exactly what ports it's listening to ---
try lsof and/or netstat for this. Also, have you looked at the
postmaster log?
regards, tom lane