And run, do not walk, to the latest version of 7.4.x. Better yet,
upgrade to 8.1.4.

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:04:05AM +0500, Shoaib Mir wrote:
> Run the following
>
> pg_ctl -D <data folder path> status
>
> to see if you have the db server running or not?
>
> As these seems to me you dont have the database server running on port 5432.
>
> Thanks,
> ---
> Shoaib Mir
> EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)
>
> On 10/3/06, Ravindran Vijaykumar R-AVR025 <vijay.ravindran@motorola.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >Hi Friends,
> >
> >I am using postgres 7.4.2 in Ubuntu linux...
> >
> >when I run psql -l command, it says the following error....
> >
> >postgres@host:~$ <postgres@host:%7E$> psql -l
> >psqll: could not connect to server: Connection refused
> > Is the server running locally and accepting
> > connections on Unix domain socket
> >"/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
> >
> >I have the backup database in the home folder, please update me, how
> >should i make the database up...
> >
> >rgds
> >vijay
> >

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