On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:42, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > there was a debian-postgresql list but it seems to have died ... :-(
There is now (as of 2 days ago) an Alioth project for the Debian packaging, and it has a mailing list: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-postgresql-public ... > > I compiled the Woody backport 7.3.4-2.woody.2 from Oliver on a Sparc machine. > When I used the normal stable 7.2.1-2woody package I was able to connect via > TCP/IP. When I installed the backport mentioned above I did not changed any > configuration file but TCP/IP connections even from localhost failed. > > First I had > > # grep tcpip /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf > tcpip_socket = on > > I detected a change in the syntax of this file for more recent postgresql > versions > and changed to > > # grep tcpip /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf > tcpip_socket = true That shouldn't make any difference. I think both forms are accepted. > But on both systems a > > > psql -h localhost template1 > > fails. (I did not changed the port and also > > > psql -p 5432 -h localhost template1 > > fails as well. > > Any hint whether there is a general problem on Sparc? I haven't heard of a Sparc problem. Is there anything in the log? (/var/log/postgresql/postgres.log) or in syslog? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "If ye love me, keep my commandments." John 14:15