Travis Bauer <trbauer@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
> Well, there were two other copies of postgress running, and at least one
> was tying up port 5432, but . . .
> I couldn't see them with 'ps' or 'ps -a',
ps -a only lists processes that it thinks are spawned from interactive
sessions. You need ps -ax to see everything on the system.
> netstat did not list them as using a port,
Actually I think netstat only shows open connections, not processes
listening for connections. Does anyone know a (reasonably portable)
way of seeing which port numbers are being accept()ed on?
regards, tom lane