On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:43:18AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/23/12 09:21, [email protected] 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. >
Interestingly I can't `su postgres` even though I have set it a shell, thanks for the tip though, I'm getting closer!
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