"Trewern, Ben" wrote: You need to create a database first and connect to it. Best to do createdb testdb at the command line below is error i get when trying to do above command i realize i need to start postmaster but all trys not successful as from docs i can't tell how to get my template1 created ( in /usr/local/data......... ) as that is required apparantly for postmaster.......... -------------------------------------------- [handiman@localhost /root]$ createdb handiman psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix socket '5432'? createdb: database creation failed