Installing Drupal

I keep getting this notice+error because i don't have a password required to connect to postgresql

Notice: Undefined index: pass in /var/www/drupal-4.7.0-beta4/includes/database.pgsql.inc on line 37 on line 37 Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /var/www/drupal-4.7.0-beta4/includes/database.pgsql.inc:37) in /var/www/drupal-4.7.0-beta4/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 692

I have install Drupal via CuteFTP to my server, and have also created a database prior to installation, but it gives me this error message: Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /mounted-storage/home4/sub001/sc11683-MPAJ/rsycsailing.org/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

What can I do to fix it?

I just finished installing version 4.6. Everything seems to be working fine. One thing however that i noticed. If for example, my domain name was www.example.com, i can easily write into the url window, www.example.com/modules and it populates the entire window with my /modules directories and files, exactly the way it looks on my server. Same is also true for /themes or whatever else comes after my base web address.

I am wondering if anyone could help me out with this problem. I just installed flexinode, including running the SQL install. However, here is the error that I get:

user warning: Table 'rickvug_promag.rickvug_promag_flexinode_type' doesn't exist query: SELECT * FROM rickvug_promag_flexinode_type in /home/rickvug/public_html/promag/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 108.

I'm having a little problem with listhandler... (Drupal 4.6.5)

I can create a comment to a forum topic (node) and the listhandler module works correctly to send out the comment to my mailing list.

I can reply to the comment via email and mailhandler sticks it in the appropriate forum/thread.

What doesn't work:

Posting a new forum topic from Drupal (i.e. creating a new node of type forum) does not seem to get sent to the mailing list (no listhandler interaction).

Also, the new forum topic does not appear on the main forum page. However, it is accessible from the "New forum topics" block on the side. Adding a comment to this "hidden" forum topic also not seem to work.

Any ideas what could be broken? I looked at the seqquences and system table but didn't see anything obvious.

For a forum post (node, type forum) that is created within Drupal, I see this in the forum table:

mysql> select * from forum where nid='20910';
+-------+-----+
| nid     | tid |
+-------+-----+
| 20910 |   0 |
+-------+-----+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

My forum TID is 30. Posts from the mailing list have "tid: 30" in the Commands section and they do work (this is from the email list):

mysql> select * from forum where nid='20909';
+-------+-----+
| nid     | tid |
+-------+-----+
| 20909 |  30 |
+-------+-----+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

I noticed that the counts of unread messages for the forum does not seem to be accurate. This forum ahs a bulk import of ~30k phpBB posts in it. Perhaps something is not updated correctly?

For some reason on the modules settings page all the modules keep getting unset no matter how many times I set them again!! When you navigate to the home page there is nothing there! I'm trying to see in the database where these values are set so I can do it manually (and trying to search on drupal for this issue at the same time)... If someone has any pointers please respond ASAP!!

cheers