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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7
From:       Tom Lane <tgl () sss ! pgh ! pa ! us>
Date:       2009-07-31 22:57:13
Message-ID: 16348.1249081033 () sss ! pgh ! pa ! us
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Christine Desmuke <cdesmuke@kshs.org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Years ago I saw roughly similar symptoms when SELinux decided postgres
>> shouldn't be allowed to write to /dev/tty.

> Thanks for the suggestion. It is not SELinux (SELinux status: disabled), 
> but _something_ is preventing postgres (both the existing install and 
> the one I'm trying to check) from writing to /dev/tty.

You *sure* selinux is disabled?  Because that sounds exactly like a
long-ago selinux policy bug.  I'd have thought everybody's machine
had the fix by now, but if this machine isn't too up2date, maybe not...

			regards, tom lane

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