Bojan Jovanovic <bjovanovic@bjovanovic.com> writes:
>> RHEL3 had SELinux. Do you have /usr/sbin/getenforce and if so what does
>> it report?
> NO SElinux on this box... (don't have getenforce)
Strange. Try strace'ing the psql session to see if it's trying to write
stderr and if so what happens.
regards, tom lane