Re: [CentOS] Postgres does not appear to work on CentOS 4.x

On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 21:32 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:

On 9/24/05, Brian Watters brwatters@abs-internet.com wrote:

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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