PostgreSQL 91 does not start automatically

[Mr. Puneet Kishor]

On Apr 25, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Apr 25, 2012, at 16:07, Puneet Kishor wrote:
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>> All fixed for now....
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>> I changed the following line in my httpd.conf
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>> 	- Listen mumbai.geology.wisc.edu:80
>> 	+ Listen 80
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>> Now, there is no specific IP or network address for apache2 to check, so it doesn't seem to trip over that check, and starts happily on its own.
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>> Perhaps a more dependable fix would be useful.
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> I was going to suggest:
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> Listen 144.92.206.113:80
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> I presume it was the DNS resolving capability that wasn't available that early during startup, so using the IP address should bypass the need for that capability.
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> I thought it was recommended not to use a hostname in the Listen (or other similar) directives because of problems like these, but I can't find any actual documentation of that.
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> 



Possibly. Although, I added the name and the IP address to /etc/hosts, but that too did not help. Just taking way the IP or network address and just using the port number resolved the issue.



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Puneet Kishor