Re: [HACKERS] getcwd failing suddenly

From: "D'Arcy" "J(dot)M(dot)" Cain <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>
To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane)
Cc: darcy(at)druid(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] getcwd failing suddenly
Date: 1999-01-22 15:45:50
Message-ID: m103imM-0000bnC@druid.net
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Thus spake Tom Lane
> > shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories
>
> A quick glimpse scan shows no such error message in the Postgres
> sources. This must be coming out of your shell. Protection change
> on one of the ancestors of your home directory, maybe?

I forgot to mention that this happens on 3 different machines as I
upgrade to the latest PostgreSQL and each machine has a different
version of the OS. I can't recall changing anything to do with
directory permissions but I certainly didn't change all 3.

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