On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 09:33, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:20 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > If you leave off the output redirection, do you see any output at all? > > I guess I'd try a brute-force 'strace pg_dump flightlog' next and > > wade through the output for errors opening files, etc. > > > > Nope, no output at all. And as I'm now seeing, I'm getting nothing > in /var/log/pgsql either. :-( > > I'm sending you the strace output off-list (it's only 20KB, but the rest > of the list doesn't need the bandwidth use). There are a *LOT* of errors > in there, but in most cases I cannot determine whether they are material > to the problem at hand. I did notice specifically that it looks > for /home/rpaiz/.pgpass several times, a file which I have never created > and does not exist. > > If you can take a look at this, I'd really appreciate it! Something is > very definitely not working right here. I replied separately, but it *did* write a message to stderr (file descriptor 2) and strace only shows the start of it. I think it should have been telling you why the connection failed. If you don't see anything on the screen you need to figure out what happened to your stderr output. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx