Hi Scott,
Thank you for your reply, but...
postgresql.conf has:
listen_addresses = '*'
Is there anything else I am missing?
Tena Sakai
tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@gmail.com]
Sent: Fri 4/10/2009 12:42 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] connectivity problem
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I am having difficulty connecting to postgres service from
> a remote machine on the network.
>
> My postgres (8.3.6, on Linux) is running on a machine
> (vixen) and I would like to connect to it from another host.
>
> The host (named blitzen, runs linux as well) appears in
> pg_hba.conf of vixen as:
> host canon all 172.16.1.106/32 md5 # blitzen
>
> and when I issue "psql canon" from blitzen, it complains as:
> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
You need to adjust the listen_address setting in postgresql.conf.