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Am 26.04.2014 18:26, schrieb Christian Vaas:

How do I determine my postgresql socket location?

On Apr 26, 2014 6:17 PM, "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl@thelounge.net <mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net>> wrote:

Am 26.04.2014 18 <tel:26.04.2014%2018>:06, schrieb Chris Vaas:
> I am currently facing the following log output:
>
> Apr 26 16:40:28 h2290750 dovecot: auth: Error: pgsql(localhost): Connect
> failed to database mail: could not connect to server: Permission denied
> Apr 26 16:40:28 h2290750 dovecot: auth: Error: #011Is the server running on
> host "localhost" (::1) and accepting
> Apr 26 16:40:28 h2290750 dovecot: auth: Error: #011TCP/IP connections on
> port 5432?
>
> I have double checked the database. It is listening correctly and I can
> connect to it via
>
> psql -U mailreader mail
>
> I provided all necessary information to dovecot via this configuration
> snippet:
>
> driver = pgsql
> connect = host=localhost dbname=mail user=mailreader password=secret
> default_pass_scheme = SHA512
> password_query = SELECT email as user, password,
> 'maildir:/home/mail'||maildir as userdb_mail FROM users WHERE email = '%u'
>
> How can I debug this situation?

try "host=/path/to/your/unix/socket" instead just only "localhost"
or switch to TCP with using 127.0.0.1 instead localhost

in case of mysqld this would be "host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock"

why don't you know that? it's your machine and i don't use PostgreSQL at all "updatedb; locate post | grep socket" may be a good start

just read the man page of your distribtion or use google google: "name-of-your-distribution postgresql unix socket"

or simply try 127.0.0.1 which is as explained different to localhost localhost is typically unix-socket and 127.0.0.1 TCP/IP, in any case you have to make sure that the user is allowed

in case of mysql i can set different permissions for "user1@localhost" and "user1@127.0.0.1", most likely PostgeSQL supports that too