From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200505061455.j46Etej28299@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: SELinux & Redhat
In-Reply-To: <BCAFEEBE-43EC-446F-95CF-A920CD43FE36@torgo.978.org>
To: Jeff - <threshar@torgo.978.org>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 10:55:40 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
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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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