Re: Make check fails on 8.3.7

Christine Desmuke <cdesmuke@kshs.org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Years ago I saw roughly similar symptoms when SELinux decided postgres
>> shouldn't be allowed to write to /dev/tty.

> Thanks for the suggestion. It is not SELinux (SELinux status: disabled),
> but _something_ is preventing postgres (both the existing install and
> the one I'm trying to check) from writing to /dev/tty.

You *sure* selinux is disabled?  Because that sounds exactly like a
long-ago selinux policy bug.  I'd have thought everybody's machine
had the fix by now, but if this machine isn't too up2date, maybe not...

            regards, tom lane