Sorry, I take that back. The platform is Fedora Core 4, so SELinux may
be a concern, though during the installation I selected all the minimal
options for SELinux because I wasn't prepared to deal with it.
Apologies for the previous incorrect answer, I was typing it on a Redhat
9 machine :-)
Jeffrey Tenny wrote:
> The platform is Redhat 9, so no SELinux.
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Jeffrey Tenny <jeffrey.tenny@comcast.net> writes:
>>
>>> I'm trying to move my databases to another drive.
>>
>>
>>
>> On what platform?
>>
>> One theory that fits the available facts is that you're running on a
>> machine with SELinux enabled; the usual selinux policy forbids the
>> postmaster from accessing files outside /var/lib/pgsql.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
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