Re: initdb dies during IpcSemaphoreCreate under BSD jail

You need to get your provider to set the sysctl jail.sysvipc_allowed to
1 in the host environment. If they're not willing to do this for you, we
provide this feature on our servers, and also have a shared Postgres
database you can use.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of
> Vince Vielhaber
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 March 2002 3:03 AM
> To: Joel Burton
> Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] initdb dies during IpcSemaphoreCreate
> under BSD jail
>
>
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Joel Burton wrote:
>
> > (posted last week to pgsql-general; no responses there, so
> I'm seeing
> > if anyone here can contribute. Thanks!)
> >
> >
> > I'm working on a site hosted in a BSD Jail; they have MySQL
> installed
> > but, of course, I'd rather use PostgreSQL.
> >
> > It installs fine but can't initdb; get the following:
> >
> > Fixing permissions on existing directory
> /usr/local/pgsql/data... ok
> > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base... ok
> creating directory
> > /usr/local/pgsql/data/global... ok creating directory
> > /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog... ok creating directory
> > /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog... ok creating template1 database in
> > /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1...
> > IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget(key=1, num=17, 03600) failed:
> Function not
> > implemented
> >
> > Earlier message traffic suggests that SYSV IPC has not been
> fixed to
> > run under BSD Jails.
> >
> > The last time this was raised was ~1 year ago. Has there been any
> > changes here that anyone knows of? Any hope of getting PG
> running in
> > our jail? (Or, alternatively, can PG run on the real machine's
> > processes so that the different jails can access it?)
>
> I don't know about running PG in a jail, but if you have it
> running on the parent or real machine the jails can access it
> just fine but not as localhost.
>
> Vince.
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