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. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [email protected] | (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 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
