PostgreSQL Permission denied Error on Unix domain socket “/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432” - Lion Server 10.7.3 or Lion Server 10.7.4
I recently had major permission problems using Lion Server where permissions would change on folders at will. During this time I had started getting the following error when trying to do a rake db:migrate command: rake aborted! could not connect to server: Permission denied Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"? This had been working before when I first created a Rails 3.2.3 application while running 10.7.2. All of a sudden I started having this error come up. I read many blogs about this error and tried to remove it but