On 10/17/06, Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote:
> "Andras Simon" <szajmi@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to create a new tablespace in a directory that postgres
> > owns, but PG says it cannot set permissions on this directory.
>
> ...
>
> > This is on Fedora Core 5 (x86), psql 8.1.4.
>
> SELinux, most likely.
That's it!
Oct 17 02:58:57 localhost kernel: audit(1161046737.127:24): avc: denied { setattr } for pid=21374 comm="postmaster"
name="mspace"dev=hdb6 ino=2424835 scontext=system_u:system_r:postgresql_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:object_r:usr_t:s0
tclass=dir
Thanks,
Andras