Craig White wrote: >----- >nowhere do you actually say what you are trying to do. > >Are you trying to start postgresql server? > >/sbin/service postgresql start > >Are you trying to get postgresql server to start on each boot? > >/sbin/chkconfig postgresql on > >Are you trying to use the client application? > >/usr/bin/psql [options] > >Are you trying to locate the configuration files? > >/var/lib/pgsql/data > Hi All, 1st, let me apologize for being slack. I should do more research before asking in here. Anyway, I got it running, but, am new to pgsql and am getting this, [racket at ibmlap lib]$ psql template1 psql: FATAL: role "racket" does not exist so I went into to the data dir and looked around and thought I could add to the below files. pg_ident below, # TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only local all all ident sameuser # IPv4 local connections: host all all 127.0.0.1/32 ident sameuser # IPv6 local connections: host all all ::1/128 ident sameuser pg_hba.conf is below, # MAPNAME IDENT-USERNAME PG-USERNAME racket racket postgres I know I'm close with this. Cheers. Mark Sargent.