Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-26 Thread napalm
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 07:46:10AM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Mon, April 23, 2012 3:21 pm, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > > I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as > > I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather > > strange error when

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, April 23, 2012 3:21 pm, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as > I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather > strange error when trying to start postgres. > > # /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 start > *

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-24 Thread Stroller
On 23 April 2012, at 22:18, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > … > and if I create one and chown it > postgres:postgres I still can't do anything. I'm totally at a loss here. If you want to say something like "Postgres doesn't have a home directory", please post the output of `grep -i postgres /et

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/24/12 05:31, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 06:27:22AM +0100, Graham Murray wrote: >> nap...@squareownz.org writes: >> >>> Postgres doesn't have a home directory and if I create one and chown it >>> postgres:postgres I still can't do anything. I'm totally at a loss her

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-24 Thread napalm
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 06:27:22AM +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > nap...@squareownz.org writes: > > > Postgres doesn't have a home directory and if I create one and chown it > > postgres:postgres I still can't do anything. I'm totally at a loss here. > > Postgres should have a home directory - /va

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread Graham Murray
nap...@squareownz.org writes: > Postgres doesn't have a home directory and if I create one and chown it > postgres:postgres I still can't do anything. I'm totally at a loss here. Postgres should have a home directory - /var/lib/postgresql If you run su - postgres, this is the directory you shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread napalm
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:56:47AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/23/12 11:44, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > >> > >> You can `su postgres` and then try to read the files yourself. That > >> should reveal the problem. > >> > > > > Interestingly I can't `su postgres` even though I have set

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/23/12 11:44, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: >> >> You can `su postgres` and then try to read the files yourself. That >> should reveal the problem. >> > > Interestingly I can't `su postgres` even though I have set it a shell, > thanks for the tip though, I'm getting closer! You can also try `

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread napalm
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:43:18AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/23/12 09:21, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > > I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as > > I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather > > strange error when trying t

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/23/12 09:21, nap...@squareownz.org wrote: > I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as > I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather > strange error when trying to start postgres. > > # /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 start > * Caching ser

Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:21 AM, wrote: > I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as > I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather > strange error when trying to start postgres. > > # /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 start >  * Caching service de

[gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory

2012-04-23 Thread napalm
I'm unsure if I should be posting this to the -hardened mailing list as I'm using the hardened profile but all of a sudden I'm getting a rather strange error when trying to start postgres. # /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 start * Caching service dependencies ... [