On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Bob Hartung wrote:

Hi again all.
 Here is the situation:
        Fedora Core 3 with all updates.
        PostgreSQL 8.0.1 installed - no tables to update.
        In /etc/profile I have declared:
                PGDATA=/pg_data
                PATH=$PATH:$PGDATA
                export PGDATA
                export PATH

       Directory /pg_data exists and is owned by postgres.
       Log in as user postgres and run initdb by itself or with
                -D PGDATA
                -D /pg_data

       The output is as follows:
          The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
"postgres?.
          This user must also own the server process.
          The database cluster will be initialized with local en_US.UTF-8.
          The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UNICODE.

          fixing permissions on existing directory /pg_data . . . ok
          creating directory /pg_data/global ... ok
          creating directory /pg_data/pg_xlog ... ok
          creating directory /pg_data/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok
          creating directory /pg_data/pg_clog ... ok
          creating directory /pg_data/pg_subtrans ... ok
          creating directory /pg_data/base ... ok
          creating directory /pg_data/base/1 ... ok
          creating directory /pg_data/pb_tblspc ... ok
          selecting default max_connections ... 10
          selecting default shared_buffers ... 50
          creating configuration files ... ok
          creating template1 database in /pg_data/base/1 ... child process
exited with exit code 1
          initdb: removing contents of data directory "/pg_data"

Does anyone have any idea of where I went wrong?  If do not declare and
export PGDATA or append it to path, everything works fine.

Thanks again for your time.  If you responded the other day I may have
lost your message as I was on the road.

Please read replies here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-02/msg00832.php

As Tom wrote, it's likely it's SElinux in action.

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