mich...@x054:[/data/home/ michael]ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 27 root system 4096 Jan 04 17:20 / mich...@x054:[/data/home/michael]ls -ld /usr
drwxr-xr-x 43 root system 4096 Jan 05 13:40 /usr mich...@x054:[/data/home/michael]ls -ld /usr/local drwxr-xr-x 19 root system 4096 Jan 05 13:32 /usr/local mich...@x054:[/data/home/michael]ls -ld /usr/local/pgsql drwxr-xr-x 7 root system 256 Jan 05 13:45 /usr/local/pgsql mich...@x054:[/data/home/michael]ls -ld /usr/local/pgsql/data drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres postgres 256 Jan 05 13:45 /usr/local/pgsql/data mich...@x054:[/data/home/michael]ls -ld /usr/local/pgsql/bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 4096 Jan 05 13:33 /usr/local/pgsql/bin To answer the other question: root:system was the original owner. Changed to pgsql before calling application. Because of the error I made the group, changed user postgres to be postgres:postgres by default and made the directory postgres:postgres. I suppose I could turn on audit and see if it is trying to access a hard coded directory. But, in any case, I would update the error message to at least mention the directory name it is having issues with. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > "Michael Felt" <mamf...@gmail.com> writes: > > I have compiled postgresql on AIX 6.1 without a great deal of difficulity > > (./configure -without-readline -without-zlib). > > > However, the fist step - initdb - fails. I have not been able to > determine > > which directory it is complaining about. > > > could not identify current directory: The file access permissions do not > > allow the specified action. > > This message means that getcwd() failed, apparently with an EACCESS > code. Typically what that means is that some parent directory of > the current directory is not readable or searchable by the user you > ran initdb as. > > I believe that initdb also invokes getcwd for the directory that > its own executable is in, and possibly for the target data directory, > so you should check the paths leading to those as well. > > regards, tom lane >
