From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Brandon Keepers <brandon(at)opensoul(dot)org>, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pg_dump silently fails |
Date: | 2005-06-14 20:25:34 |
Message-ID: | 200506142025.j5EKPYw11634@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)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.
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