On 06/28/10 11:41 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
I wrote a script that creates a new database from an existing backup. Works great on my machine. Another user tries to use it and sees the following output from initdb:

could not change directory to "/root"
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.
.
.

Why is it trying to change directory to /root??? Running as the postgres user.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

maybe he did an "su postgres" and not a "su - postgres" ? the latter does the equiv of a login, while the first only changes hte effective user.



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