On 5/24/05, Gavin Carr <gavin at openfusion.com.au> wrote: > Yep, I came across this a couple of months ago - it's an selinux bug on > postgres initialisation: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150979 > > There's an updated policy in that thread that fixes the problem, and > it'll be included in the upcoming RHEL4 U1. thanks to everyone who replied particulary to gavin, the information above solved my problem. i downloaded the selinux-policy-targeted and policycoreutils RPMs from ftp://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/SELinux/RHEL4/u1/ and did an rpm -Uvh on those packages. everything went fine after that. p.s.: with selinux still enabled, i had an error starting apache afterwards. it was complaining about "bad user name apache" but i had it fixed by running "/sbin/fixfiles restore" matt -- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present.