On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 21:16, Shawn Kovalchick wrote: > The thing is, I can ping localhost. Nothing else has a problem > talking to localhost, it's just postgresql. It has the same setup > files as a separate installation on my home Gentoo box, which works > fine. > > Did some looking in the archives, I found a similar problem with connecting to postgresql. Try doing an netstat -tap and see if postgres is listening on any tcp/udp port. If not, you may have to tinker with the configuration to specify which port you want it to run on. I think I remember reading that by default postgres only listens on UNIX domain sockets. HTH
