Re: Questions

I counted - - - I have over 12 pages of commands (written out) that I have worked through in this odyssey to date!

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Chris Travers <..hidden..> wrote:

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Sorry, I got the sudo command wrong. Confused sudo and su.

sudo -u postgres pg_dumpall > /tmp/mypgbackup.sql
cp /tmp/mypgbackup /home/myuser/

the response to the sudo . . . is:

pgdumpall: could not connect to database "template1": could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

ok then. As root try:

locate .s.PGSQL.5432

See if that shows anything. If not, of if you get an error you may need to:

Tried this first and no joy!

find / -name .s.PGSQL.5432

That may take a while though.

As the third option ran and provided nothing - - - bummer!

As an alternative you could just do as follows instead:

pg_dumpall -h localhost -u postgres > /home/myuser/mydbdump.sql

You will need to provide the Postgres password in this case.

Tried this second and the response was:

Is the server running on host "localhost"(127.0.0.1) and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

As I am NOT able to run firefox etal at this time (no working X system) that sort of made sense after I read it.

I am starting to see why companies just off load this to an IT person (and pity that poor sucker!!)!

TIA

Darald