Warings in Log: could not resolve "localhost": host nor service provided, or not known

Started by Duraiabout 22 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Durai
visolve_postgres@lycos.co.uk

Hello All,

I built PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on HPUX IPF platform. It works fine. But when I start the postmaster, I got
the following LOG message:

LOG: could not resolve "localhost": host nor service provided, or not known

$ postmaster -D /var/opt/iexpress/postgresql &
[1]: 8995 $ LOG: could not resolve "localhost": host nor service provided, or not known LOG: database system was shut down at 2004-03-30 16:07:50 IST LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/2132D0 LOG: redo record is at 0/2132D0; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE LOG: next transaction ID: 120; next OID: 16778 LOG: database system is ready
$ LOG: could not resolve "localhost": host nor service provided, or not known
LOG: database system was shut down at 2004-03-30 16:07:50 IST
LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/2132D0
LOG: redo record is at 0/2132D0; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
LOG: next transaction ID: 120; next OID: 16778
LOG: database system is ready

Is there any configuration to solve this problem?

Regs,
Durai.

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#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Durai (#1)
Re: Warings in Log: could not resolve "localhost": host nor service provided, or not known

"Durai " <visolve_postgres@lycos.co.uk> writes:

I built PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on HPUX IPF platform. It works fine. But when I start the postmaster, I got
the following LOG message:

LOG: could not resolve "localhost": host nor service provided, or not known

The machine's name service is broken. You probably need to fix
/etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/hosts, and/or /etc/resolv.conf.
"man switch" has some info about the first of these.

regards, tom lane