Tom, I think you may be right. There were some audit access denied messages. I had SELinux in permissive mode, but its tricky to work with.
I generated a new SELinux rule using audit2allow, here is what it looks like now. Do you think this is adequate? Thanks, Cory [r...@ittdev1 data]# ls -Z pg_xlog -rw------- postgres postgres root:object_r:postgresql_db_t 000000010000000000000000 drwx------ postgres postgres root:object_r:postgresql_db_t archive_status > From: Tom Lane <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:09:48 -0400 > To: Cory Isaacson <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Checkpoint request failed, permission denied > > Cory Isaacson <[email protected]> writes: >> Here are the permissions on pg_xlog: >> drwx------ 3 postgres postgres 4096 Sep 13 22:19 pg_xlog > > Well, that certainly looks right. I'm back to suspecting selinux ... > have you tried "ls -Z"? I'm not totally sure about RHEL5, but in > recent Fedora it should look like > > drwx------. postgres postgres unconfined_u:object_r:postgresql_db_t:s0 pg_xlog > > the "postgresql_db_t" bit being the actually critical part. > > regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
