Fresh Installation of 7.1.1 RPMs = no binding to a port

Hi Neil,

In the configuration file, did you give it the -i option?

This tells it to accept TCP/IP connections as well. Don't know your
exact script, so you may have to use -o '-i' to get the -i to take
effect. You'll figure it out.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Neil Mock wrote:

Hi,

I just installed (not upgraded) Postgrseql 7.1.1 from
RPM's from the postgresl website. I'm running RedHat
7.1, and the startup script in init.d seems to work
fine, it says postgresql is running, etc. I can
create databases and work with them, but for some
reason postgrseql is not binding to any port. I have
set in the configuration file for it to bind to port
5432 (which is the default I believe), but no luck.
Everything else seems to work fine.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Neil

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Sounds like you forgot the -i switch, and/or need to add entries to
pg_hba.conf.

regards, tom lane

This is true, in Red Hat 7.1 with PostgreSQL RPMS 7.1.1 you have to MANUALLY
edit the /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql and change the line:

su -l postgres -c "LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p
/usr/bin/postmaster start >/dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null

for:

su -l -s /bin/sh postgres -c "LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/pg_ctl -o "-i" -D $PGDATA -p
/usr/bin/postmaster start >/dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null

when you do this you add the -i option so the postmaster now listens for
connection (default localhost). After that you should change pg_hba.conf to
add permissions to external hosts to connect.

Greetings,

Jorge Sarmiento

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On Monday 28 May 2001 10:25, Jorge Sarmiento wrote:

This is true, in Red Hat 7.1 with PostgreSQL RPMS 7.1.1 you have to
MANUALLY edit the /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql and change the line:

su -l postgres -c "LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p
/usr/bin/postmaster start >/dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null

Please edit /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf instead. This is documented
in the README.rpm-dist shipped with the RPMs. If the documentation in the
README is insufficient, please let me know where I need to correct and
improve it. But editing the initscript is not necessary -- and, in fact,the
next time you upgrade your RPM installation, your careful edits will be
overwritten as the newer initscript is put into place....

To find the README, execute the following:
rpm -ql postgresql | grep rpm

I have considered making the default back to TCP/IP listening -- but I am
inclined not to do so for security's sake (if postmaster isn't listening it
can't be portscanned) -- and, besides, on a from-source install the default
is to not listen over TCP/IP.

Again, this behavior is documented in the friendly README.rpm-dist shipped in
the main postgresql rpm.
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Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:

I have considered making the default back to TCP/IP listening

I think that's a bad idea, for the "be secure by default" reason.

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On Tuesday 29 May 2001 11:35, Trond Eivind Glomsr�d wrote:

Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:

I have considered making the default back to TCP/IP listening

I think that's a bad idea, for the "be secure by default" reason.

Agreed -- as I said, my inclination is to simply document how to properly
enable TCP/IP listening, which I've done -- well, I've at least put a pointer
in the README.rpm-dist to where more documentation can be found on the
subject.

I've tried to leave most things as default as possible, within reason.

And I'd rather have people surprized at TCP/IP not listening than surprized
about it listening....
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