Re: Getting rid of "accept incoming network connections" prompts on OS X

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> > On 10/21/14 1:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> If you do any Postgres development on OS X, you've probably gotten
> >> seriously annoyed by the way that, every single time you reinstall the
> >> postmaster executable, you get a dialog box asking whether you'd like
> >> to allow it to accept incoming network connections.
> >
> > I used to, but somehow I don't see this anymore. Just to be sure, I
> > made sure the firewall is on, checked that postgres is not in the
> > exception list, rebooted, built postgresql from scratch, ran make check,
> > but no pop-up.
> >
> > I'm on Yosemite. Maybe this was changed.
>
> I've never seen it on any version of OS X (I've worked my way from
> Panther to Yosemite). There must be more to it...
>
FWIW, with firewall at on, I am used to see this annoying popup window when
starting an instance manually, make check never complains though.
--
Michael