Re: SELinux strangeness with 8.1.2 and 8.1.3

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Just Someone" <just(dot)some(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SELinux strangeness with 8.1.2 and 8.1.3
Date: 2006-03-02 06:21:40
Message-ID: 22292.1141280500@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Just Someone" <just(dot)some(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I researched it a bit, and tried a few things, and discovered that the
> problem is in the init script at /etc/init.d/postgres users runuser
> instead of su on SELinux enabled systems. But for some reason it won't
> work this way. I manually reveted it to use su and it works fine.

I don't think I believe this ... not least because the runuser-for-su
substitution has been in there for a long time. It doesn't explain
a breakage during an FC4 update.

Can you provide a reasonably self-contained demonstration of the problem
you saw?

regards, tom lane

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