Re: SELinux & Redhat

Jeff - wrote:
> I think we should put some notes about SELinux causing issues with
> pgsql in the OS notes or FAQ.
>
> Myself and a few coworkers just spent a few hours tracking down why
> pg_dump would produce no output.  We'd fire it up in strace and we'd
> see all the successful write calls, but not output.
>
> We copied pg_dump from another machine and it worked fine, and that
> machine was running the same OS & pg rpms.
>
> Eventually we found it was SELinux was preventing pg_dump from
> producing output.
>
> Any thoughts?  I could write up a short blurb but I'm not terribly
> familiar with selinux. we just disabled the whole thing to make it work.
>
> For the record:
> CentOS 4.0
> postgresql-8.0.2-1PGDG.i686.rpm (and associated) rpms from
> postgresql.org's ftp server

A blurb about what?  No one else has reported such a problem so we have
no reason to assume it isn't a misconfiguration on your end.

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