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From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke)
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Subject: Re: Monitor/createdb problem
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In-Reply-To: <2438.9404221307@tcws-16.brunel.ac.uk> from "Tim.Wadsworth@brunel.ac.uk" at Apr 22, 94 02:07:39 pm
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> Could not connect to backend (Port = 4321).
> createdb failed for database foo.
> 
> I suspect that the problem may be that tcp/ip loopback may not be set up properly ...

There are two possible problems:

a) You do not have the postmaster running.  Type:

       postmaster &

b) Your Linux box does no loopback networking.  The best idea is perhaps
   to get the SLACKWARE network disks, install them, and make sure, that
   the scripts in

       /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
       /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2

   are properly called from /etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/rc.M.


> I'm sure there is a document *somewhere* telling me how to set this up - could 
> someone please tell me where?! (Or that the problem lies elsewhere).

There is a NETWORK-HOWTO, which is regularly posted to the linux
newsgroups, and can be found on the various ftp servers as well.


Kai