Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes, it's a linux box. And /dev/shm/ does have incorrect permissions > (755). Thanks to your response I remembered that chromium does not run until > I follow its advice to chmod 1777 /dev/shm. Sure enough, chromium would not > load. > So, I changed the perms on /dev/shm/ and now both postgres and chromium > work. Hmm, AFAIK that's what it should be out of the box. Certainly on my RHEL6 machine I see $ ls -ld /dev/shm drwxrwxrwt. 2 root root 260 Sep 12 10:53 /dev/shm/ Googling suggests that some really old kernels (~2009) might've had issues with setting this up wrong, but anything in current support ought to get it right ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
