Hi Used the 'mount --bind', worked well for me. Thanks. But I was wondering why it is not possible to configure Selinux to have the Postgresql data directory under /mnt? /markus <div>On 2/10/06, Paul Howarth <<a href="mailto:paul@city-fan.org">paul@city-fan.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 20:10 +0100, Markus Lindholm wrote: > Hi > > I have a FC4 box (all updates applied) on which I have a Postgresql > server (standard fedora rpms) and I'm running targeted selinux policy. > The problem is that I cannot move the data directory away > from /var/lib/pgsql/data with out turning selinux off. > > Is there any HOWTOs out there that would be helpful? > > I've tried using chcon so that the permission would be identical > between the new and the old > > [root@zeus ~]# ls -ldZ /var/lib/pgsql/data/ > drwx------ postgres postgres > system_u:object_r:postgresql_db_t /var/lib/pgsql/data/ > [root@zeus ~]# ls -lZd /mnt/raid/db/pgsql/data/ > drwx------ postgres postgres > system_u:object_r:postgresql_db_t /mnt/raid/db/pgsql/data/ > > But I still get permission denied when I try to start postgresql !! If > I mark the "Disable SELinux protection for Postgresql daemon" in the > SELinux GUI, then it starts up fine. > But what would be the correct way to handle this? Why are you moving the data directory in the first place? If it's for space reasons, an alternative approach might be simply to mount your target partition on /var/lib/pgsql/data; if you're not using an entire partition, you could use a bind mount: # mount --bind /mnt/raid/db/pgsql/data /var/lib/pgsql/data Paul. -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-selinux-list@redhat.com">fedora-selinux-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list</a> </blockquote></div>