On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:47:36PM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> Folks,
>
> This may have come up before, but I didn't see a specific answer in
> the archives.
>
> When I try to do:
>
> CREATE TABLESPACE foo LOCATION '/path/to/foo/which/is/not/under/$PGDATA';
>
> I get:
>
> ERROR: could not set permissions on directory "/path/to/foo/which/is/not/under/$PGDATA"
>
> Apparently this is a SELinux problem. How do I set the policy to
> allow for this, or if that's not possible, how do I disable SELinux?
>
> Thanks in advance :)
Pardon my self-followup for the archives :)
Thanks to Talha Khan, who said:
> setenforce 1;
>
> will disable SELINUX
Thanks also to Clodoaldo Pinto, who said:
> >Apparently this is a SELinux problem.
>
> Confirm it looking for a message in /var/log/messages.
>
> >How do I set the policy to allow for this,
>
> This Fedora FAQ is good:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#faq-div-controlling-selinux
>
> >or if that's not possible, how do I disable SELinux?
>
> edit /ect/selinux/config
Cheers,
D
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