On 04/23/12 09:21, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as > I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather > strange error when trying to start postgres. > > # /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 start > * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok > ] > * The following file(s) are not readable by 'postgres': > * /etc/postgresql-9.1/postgresql.conf > * /etc/postgresql-9.1/pg_ident.conf > * /etc/postgresql-9.1/pg_hba.conf > * HINT: Try: 'chmod 644 /etc/postgresql-9.1/*.conf' > * ERROR: postgresql-9.1 failed to start > > That's what I'm getting when I attempt to start it and I don't seem to have > modified anything. > > Looking into the init script I can see it's doing su postgres -c "test -r > /etc/postgresql-9.1/pg_hba.conf" and the like but the output of: > su postgres -c "test -r /etc/postgresql-9.1/pg_hba.conf" || echo "fail" > is fail... so I'm quite at a loss as to what could be going on here. All of > the files are owned by postgres, have the correct permissions (I ran chmod > 644 as it hinted) and it should be able to traverse to the directory as > everything has the execute bit from /etc onwards. >
You can `su postgres` and then try to read the files yourself. That should reveal the problem.
