postgres won't restart automagically

[onaweb]

Hello,
I finally got postgres running, but the problem I'm having is that when it attempts to restart automagically, it doesn't. I have to access the server via shell and run
service postgres stop
su postgres
/usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data -i
and it will start but I receive this error message
FATAL: invalid length of startup packet

everything appears to run fine after that but if the server goes down it won't restart.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Andy

[jsteel]

Make sure you manually update your pgsql.conf file so that the tcp socket is enabled.

[onaweb]

Yep. That's all done. It does monitor postgresql and attempt to restart it, but it can't.

I should also mention that I have uninstalled and installed postgres several times and still receive the same problem.

I also noticed that in my Service Status, I have 2 postgresql - one in lower case and one in upper case.

PostGreSQL up
apache (1.3.31 (Unix)) up
bind (9.2.1) up
cppop up
cpsrvd up
exim (exim-4.43-0_cpanel_stmpcontrol_antivirus_rewrite_mailman2_maskedmailtrap_exiscan) up
eximstats up
ftpd up
imap up
mysql (4.0.20-standard) up
postgresql up
syslogd up
Server Load 0.27 (1 cpu)
Memory Used 24.4 %
Swap 0.819 %
Disk hda3 (/) DMA+ 12 %
Disk hda1 (/boot) DMA+ 10 %
Disk hdc1 (/backup) DMA+ 13 %

Thanks for your help though.
Andy