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  From: Ben Kramer <ben@webmedia.com.au>
  To  : Micheal Foord <thoth@tomato.sa.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:29:45 +1030

Re: installing postgres rpm's from RH5.1 CD

Micheal Foord wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I removed the PostgreSQL package from my RH5.1 installation to try
> MySQL out. I have removed MySQL and tried to re-install PostgreSQL
> RPMs from the CD's.
> 
> It doesn't seem to start up properly now, however. Running psql or
> pgaccess says that postmaster is not running on port 5432.
> 
> What tweaks to initialisation scripts are required to get the daemon
> to start up when the system starts?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Michael Foord
> Systems Manager
> 
<snip>
when you start postgreSQL from the init.d script you must be root, and
to get it to listen to network connections ther must be an -i in the
sript when the postmaster is called or something like that :-)
ben........

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