[vPostMaster] Vpostmaster

[Sam Povilus]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 01:48:52PM -0400, Sam Povilus wrote:
>   
>> I had vpostmaster working yesterday, but then i started installing 
>> openvpn and messing with the firewall and routing tables. today i tried 
>> to get mail via imap through dovecot and it wont connect. i looked at 
>> the maiallog file and it says:
>>
>> dovecot: auth(defualt): pgsql: connect failes to vpostmaster: coulde not 
>> connect to server: Permission denied.
>>                                    is the server running on host 
>> localhost and accepting TCP/ip connections on port 5432?
>>     
>
> Since you mention firewalling, I'd bet that you've broken the firewall
> rules allowing connections to tcp port 5432.  "psql -d vpostmaster" doesn't
> use a TCP socket.
>
> Try reverting your changes and see if that resolves it.  You probably need
> to allow local connections, as a guess.
>
> Sean
>   
I tried to do "psql vpostmaster -h localhost" which i though used a tcp 
socket? should it prompt for a password? is vpostmaster programmed to 
input a password when it logs on via localhost?