Postgres does not appear to work on CentOS 4.x

[tedkaz at optonline.net (Ted Kaczmarek)]

On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 21:32 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 9/24/05, Brian Watters <brwatters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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