Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Is the postmaster running at 'localhost'

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7: Response to Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 01/28/01 11:41 PM
Specifically, read the installation instructions and follow them
precisely.  Among other things you need to set PGDATA in the
environment or specify it via the command line.

Did you do an "initdb" on the database after install?  Did you do a
"createuser" for your OpenACS database user?