Thanks Tom..that did the magic.... Would I allow PG to start from any -D place by saying
semange fcontext -a -t postgresql_db_t "/qmsvol(/.*)?" Thanks Medi On Nov 26, 2007 7:48 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Medi Montaseri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However if I try to start the engine with "/etc/init.d/postgresql start > " or > > service postgresql start" I see the following error message in my PGLOG > (ie > > /var/log/pgsql/pgstartup.log) > > > postmaster cannot access the server configuration file > > "/qmsvol/pg_8.1.9/data/postgresql.conf": Permission denied > > This being CentOS (ie RHEL), you probably have got SELinux turned on > by default. The out-of-the-box SELinux policy forbids the postmaster > daemon from accessing portions of the filesystem other than > /var/lib/pgsql. > > You can either disable SELinux or fix its policy to allow PG to access > the area where you want to put PGDATA. I don't really recommend the > former, at least not for a system that has any exposure at all to the > open Internet. However, I don't have a recipe for fixing the latter > in my hip pocket, either. (Really need to go study SELinux someday.) > > regards, tom lane >
