I have a customer that was having a problem with PostgreSQL.

Message: PostgreSQLcan not be accessed using JDBC. It seems that postgres is running without "-i" option. To make postgres accessible, "-i" option must be added when postmaster gets started.

Response: I reinstalled postgresql on your server. Check in you are able to use it with JDBC.

Customer: No. still same.
Please make sure postmaster is running with "-i" option. As long as I did "ps -ef | grep postmaster", it looks like postmaster is running without "-i" option as follows.
ps -ef | grep postmaster
postgres 14128 1 0 Jul02 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432
It should be "/usr/bin/postmaster -i -p 5432".
Please check again.

Then I ran this command in shell,

root@sls-ce5p211 [~]# /scripts/installpostgres
rm: cannot remove `/root/.cpupdates/pingtimes': Is a directory
This script will install Postgres 7.3.x or later
If you have an older version installed you wil need to
Dump your databases to a file and then restore them
after the install as 7.3.x is not backwards compatible.
If you do not have any databases, you can just run:
mv /var/lib/pgsql /var/lib/pgsql.old
/sbin/service postgresql stop
/sbin/service postgresql start
to force creating a 7.3.x style setup. Do not do this if
you have databases that you wish to keep!

Are you sure you wish to proceed? no
Bailing out!
root@sls-ce5p211 [~]#
root@sls-ce5p211 [~]# mv /var/lib/pgsql /var/lib/pgsql.old
root@sls-ce5p211 [~]# /sbin/service postgresql stop
[FAILED]
root@sls-ce5p211 [~]#
root@sls-ce5p211 [~]# /sbin/service postgresql start
Initializing database: [ OK ]
Starting postgresql service: [ OK ]
root@sls-ce5p211 [~]#


Customer: Still not. Actually, postgreSQL seems to be down now.

What can I do to correct the problem?