Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Is SELinux in enforcement mode, and if so does turning it off change > >> things? > > > Should we check for a buggy SELinux and report a meaningful error > > message on failure? > > How you intend to do that, exactly? The bug is that it won't let you > write on /dev/tty, which puts a pretty severe crimp on *any* reporting. > > (This is not as insane as it sounds: it's a reasonable security > restriction for a daemon process. The error in older SELinux policy > files is that they think all the Postgres executables are daemons, not > only the postmaster.)
Throw a message to stderr saying something about SELinux. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
