On Friday 07 April 2017 22:45:16 Joe Conway wrote:
> On 04/07/2017 05:35 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> > On 04/07/2017 05:03 PM, John Iliffe wrote:
> >>>> Running on Fedora 25 with SELinux in PERMISSIVE mode. The audit
> >>>> log shows no hits on Postgresql.
> >>
> >> My going in position was/still is, that this is a SELinux security
> >> problem
> >> but I am finding SELinux to be the most opaque and badly documented
> >> software
> >> that I have ever had to deal with, which is why it is running in
> >> permissive
> >> mode at the moment.
> >
> > Well what I know about SELinux would fit in the navel of a flea(tip of
> > the hat to David Niven), so I can not be of much help there. The
> > reason I am returned this thread to the list, there are folks that do
> > understand it.
>
> If SELinux is running in permissive I don't see how it could be at fault
> for your issue. Did you verify that (getenforce)?
One would think so. But I'm out of ideas otherwise. I've been chasing
this around for several days.
>
> >> --------------------------
> >> [Fri Apr 07 17:03:28.597101 2017] [php7:warn] [pid 1797:tid
> >> 140599445419776] [client 192.168.1.10:45127] PHP Warning:
> >> pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could not
> >> connect to server: No such file or directory\n\tIs the server running
> >> locally and
> >> accepting\n\tconnections on Unix domain socket
> >> "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? in /httpd/iliffe/testfcgi.php on line
> >> 121 ----------------------------
>
> This might be a silly question, but is PHP running on the same server as
> Postgres?
No question is silly if you don't know the answer :-)
Yes, they are both on the same server.
>
> HTH,
>
> Joe