[CentOS] PostgreSQL 8.1 on CentOS4

Fri Nov 18 21:41:09 UTC 2005
Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net>

James B. Byrne wrote:

>I have discovered that the default init script distributed with 
>pgsql v8.1 sets the listening port to 5432 but does not enable 
>tcp/ip connections.  One must add the -i switch to the invocation 
>line in the script.  I am not sure if this is an oversight or 
>whether there is another way to tell postmaster to start with 
>tcp/ip listening enabled that I am unaware of.  However, I thought 
>that this information might be of interest to anyone else running a 
>non-distro version of pgsql.
>
>Regards,
>Jim
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Jim, also be aware that there is a non-password login from root on that 
distro, as well as the CentOS version.  I found out the hard way after 
being compromised by some idiot portscanning me.  No damage, but thought 
it odd to have a password-less service open to the world.

Sam

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