I've been wresting with this problem since 8.0.1 and am able to
duplicate it on 6 different installations. If I compile postgres from
source, everything works fine. If I install the RHEL 4 ES RPM, pg_dump
silently fails. I've attached two straces, one from 8.0.3 RPM that
fails, and one from 8.0.
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:55 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Is SELinux in enforcement mode, and if so does turning it off change
> things?
Yup, that was it. If you disable SELinux, everything works. I tried
just commenting out line 732
in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts and that didn'