Re: pg_dump silently fails

* Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> [140605, 14:00]:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Brandon Keepers <brandon(at)opensoul(dot)org> writes:
> > > I've been wresting with this problem since 8.0.1 and am able to
> > > duplicate it on 6 different installations. If I compile postgres from
> > > source, everything works fine. If I install the RHEL 4 ES RPM, pg_dump
> > > silently fails.
> >
> > 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?
>

Sorry to interfere ;)
You might be interested to know that there was a complaint about SELinux
blocking OpenOffice too. See ML 'users(at)openoffice(dot)org' June 13 'Previously
working OOo ...'
Regards,
Ennio.
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