PostgreSQLpgagent “Running at: is not runing”

Question

I have a problem to run pgAgent job for PostgreSQL 9.6 under ubuntu 16.04. The job is never executed.

I already configured .pgpass and added:

localhost:5432:*:postgres:mypass 

Also modified the permission for .pgpass:

$ touch ~/.pgpass
$ chmod 0600 ~/.pgpass

After that I run pgAgent with no problem:

$pgagent hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=mydb user=postgres 

When I check the process for pgAgent I would get this result:

user@gis-srv:~$ ps aux | grep pgagent
user   153179  0.0  0.0 113844  9392 pts/26   S    17:15   0:00 pgagent hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=postgres user=postgres
user   153220  0.0  0.0 113844  9360 pts/26   S    17:16   0:00 pgagent hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=mydb user=postgres
user   153227  0.0  0.0  12944   936 pts/26   S+   17:16   0:00 grep --color=auto pgagent

Here is my job setting:
Job Setting:

Schedule setting:

Step Setting:

My propblen that the job is never executed and there is no error in the errors log for PostgreSQL. Please help me to find out why jobs never run.

I am receving the following errors: from postgres.log:

2017-11-03 16:01:32.269 EDT [15344] postgres@postgres LOG:  could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer

from pgagent.log:

(attempt 9): fe_sendauth: no password supplied
Fri Nov  3 16:01:32 2017 : WARNING: Couldn't create the primary connection (attempt 10): fe_sendauth: no password supplied
Fri Nov  3 16:01:32 2017 : ERROR: Stopping pgAgent: Couldn't establish the primary connection with the database server.

Also I modified the permission .pgpass to allow everyone to access it. (Just for testing)

Answer 1

since you're specifying

pgagent hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=mydb user=postgres

change .pgpass to match it

127.0.0.1:5432:*:postgres:mypass

or specify

*:5432:*:postgres:mypass

Edit: And change the permissions of .pgpass back to 0600 else you'll get the message:

WARNING: password file "~/.pgpass" has group or world access; permissions should be u=rw (0600) or less

and for command line, it prompts for password