[CentOS] Postgres does not appear to work on CentOS 4.x
Ted Kaczmarek
tedkaz at optonline.net
Sun Sep 25 16:51:41 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 21:32 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 9/24/05, Brian Watters <brwatters at abs-internet.com> wrote:
> > We are unable to get CentOS 4.x Postgres to work .. It gives the following
> > error when we attempt to start ..
> >
> > Sep 24 18:20:28 abs250 postgresql: Starting postgresql service: failed
> >
> >
> > Ideas??
> >
>
> You can check your log files for more detail. As wild speculation made
> without any details, I'd assume selinux is enabled and blocking access
> to a file. There was a problem with the selinux policy and postgresql.
> I don't recall if that was fixed or not, as I don't use postgresql.
>
>
>
If they would switch PGLOG from /dev/null to /var/lib/pgsql for default
you might actually log something useful :-)
grep "/dev/null" /etc/init.d/postgresql
Ted
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