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