Hello Greg, thanks for the hint, yes, SELinux caused the troubles. It complained about wrong filecontext while starting postgres via init-script. Filecontext was: var_lib_t and it should be: postgresql_t regards...GERD.... On Tuesday, August 03, 2010 11:54:45 pm Greg Smith wrote: > Gerd Koenig wrote: > > Since even the init-script starts pg as user postgres I have no idea what > > differs from init-script to direct call of pg_ctl as user postgres...?!?! > > Do you have SELinux turned on? That can do weird stuff like this--the > init script will be running with restrictions the manual pg_ctl launch > will not have. Should be information in /var/log/ somewhere if that's > the case. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
