Re: PG84 and SELinux

From: "James B(dot) Byrne" <byrnejb(at)harte-lyne(dot)ca>
To: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PG84 and SELinux
Date: 2010-12-03 12:40:08
Message-ID: 39764.216.185.71.25.1291380008.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca
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On Thu, December 2, 2010 15:32, James B. Byrne wrote:
>
> On Thu, December 2, 2010 15:23, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> AFAIK, the Red Hat RPMs work out-of-the-box with SELinux;
>>
>> They should -- we are using the same routines for initdb'ing.
>>
>
> I will do a touch /.autorelabel and restart the server before I try
> again. If there was just something odd about the SELinux contexts
> on that particular host then that should clear it up. I will report
> whichever way it goes thereafter.

I restarted the server this morning, waited for the relabel to
finish ( a very long time ), and then upgraded to pg-8.4 without any
problems. SSL works fine as well. I can only infer that something
went seriously wrong with the SELinux context labels on that host.

Thank you for the help.

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