Jeffrey Tenny <jeffrey.tenny@comcast.net> writes:
> Sorry, I take that back. The platform is Fedora Core 4, so SELinux may
> be a concern, though during the installation I selected all the minimal
> options for SELinux because I wasn't prepared to deal with it.

Better check what /usr/sbin/getenforce tells you, then... or look in
/var/log/messages to see if the postmaster's operations are being
refused.

regards, tom lane

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