Re: Make check fails on 8.3.7

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christine Desmuke <cdesmuke(at)kshs(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Make check fails on 8.3.7
Date: 2009-07-31 22:57:13
Message-ID: 16348.1249081033@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christine Desmuke <cdesmuke(at)kshs(dot)org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Years ago I saw roughly similar symptoms when SELinux decided postgres
>> shouldn't be allowed to write to /dev/tty.

> Thanks for the suggestion. It is not SELinux (SELinux status: disabled),
> but _something_ is preventing postgres (both the existing install and
> the one I'm trying to check) from writing to /dev/tty.

You *sure* selinux is disabled? Because that sounds exactly like a
long-ago selinux policy bug. I'd have thought everybody's machine
had the fix by now, but if this machine isn't too up2date, maybe not...

regards, tom lane

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