Christine Desmuke <cdesmuke@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Years ago I saw roughly similar symptoms when SELinux decided postgres >> shouldn't be allowed to write to /dev/tty. > Thanks for the suggestion. It is not SELinux (SELinux status: disabled), > but _something_ is preventing postgres (both the existing install and > the one I'm trying to check) from writing to /dev/tty. You *sure* selinux is disabled? Because that sounds exactly like a long-ago selinux policy bug. I'd have thought everybody's machine had the fix by now, but if this machine isn't too up2date, maybe not... 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