Re: Version 1.4.4 installation problems (nearly there now ! )

[Tomas K. <to...@bi...>]

> Oscar Buijten wrote:
> 
> Hello again dear helpers,
> 
> I have been trying several things. Changed this line;
> postgres -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl  -D  $PGDATA -p  /usr/bin/postmaster
> start >/dev/null 2>&1
> in several ways. Can't get it to work with this.
> 
> Have tried to add : su postgres -c  'postmaster -i'   to /etc/profile
> as well but no succes either.
> 
> When I use; su postgres -c  'postmaster -i'    from the command line
> postmaster switches on and I can use the SQL-ledger application.
> 

You don't need to modify init.d script if you want to make postgresql
listen to tcp

all you need is valid configuration file.

"tcpip_socket = true" and "port = 5432" options.

and postgres listens to tcp port. I did it with postgres build from
sources and with postgres on Debian. :) 
-- 
Tomas Kuliavas