Re: postgresql fails to start after symlinking pgdata dir

Tom,

You were right i just considered that a few minutes ago before getting your
response.
I set SELINUX=disabled in /etc/sysconfig/selinux and it started up ok.

a note in this file: http://pgfoundry.org/docman/?group_id=1000048 would be
handy for those who forget easily and aren't sysadmins :)

thanks!

On 2/5/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Gene < genekhart(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > In the past I've always done the following with success (this is under
> > fedora core 6 x86_64):
>
> > mv /var/lib/pgsql/data /data/pg/
> > ln -s /data/pg/data /var/lib/pgsql/data
> > /etc/init.d/postgresql start
>
> > I just installed 8.2.2 on a new FC6 machine and when I do that it fails
> to
> > start. The logs reveal nothing.
>
> Smells like a SELinux problem --- you probably need to set the
> appropriate security context on /data/pg. It might even take an update
> to the policy ... not sure if the /var/lib/pgsql path is wired into the
> policy or if it's just driven off file context markers. Look for avc
> denied messages in the kernel log to get a hint.
>
> Or you could just do "setenforce 0" but I don't recommend that ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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