Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA99710 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 05:58:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bbarnes@operamail.com) Received: from kgb11 (pool-207-205-151-105.dlls.grid.net [207.205.151.105]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA18015 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 05:58:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199911291058.FAA18015@smtp6.mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:59:48 GMT To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org From: bbarnes@operamail.com (Bill Barnes) Subject: pgaccess on win95 connection X-Mailer: Mozilla/4.0 (Windows 95;US) Opera 3.60 [en] Installed the rpm of 6.5.3 seemingly with success. Can access template1 with pgsql and pgaccess on a Mandrake 6.1 machine. "ps ax | grep postmaster" reports the following: 551 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -i -S -D/var/lib/pgsql 1932 pts/1 S 0:00 grep postmaster '1932' increments by 2 on each iteration of the ps command. Don't know enough about what I am doing to interpret this, but in executing pgaccess on the windows machine I get the following: the connection window displays localhost 5432 I entered template1 postgres The connect error message is Error trying to connect database "template1" on host localhost PostgreSQL error message: Connection to database failed connectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and accepting TCP/IP(with -i) connections at 'localhost' on port '5432'? Tried changing the port number. It looks at least like we are getting to the database. How do I ping the server?