Re: su -c now fatal on Mac? was Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed 0.9.1 Release

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-04-08, at 6:04 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

> This works for me as root (we recommend to run upgrade as root anyway)
> 
> sudo -u postgres /Library/PostreSQL/8.4/bin/psql -l -p5432


"g" missing from /Library/PostreSQL/8.4/bin/psql

The above (with a "g" in PostreSQL) will work, but can we look for a moment why 
the equivalent hiccups (getcwd problem) if one tries to use the MacPorts psql

        /opt/local/lib/postgresql84/bin/

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MacBook:bootstrap root# sudo -u postgres /opt/local/lib/postgresql84/bin/psql 
-l -p5432
could not identify current directory: Permission denied
Password: 
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent 
directories: Permission denied
                              List of databases
    Name    |  Owner   | Encoding | Collation | Ctype |   Access privileges   
------------+----------+----------+-----------+-------+-----------------------
 gnumed_v10 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v11 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v12 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v13 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v14 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v15 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v2  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v3  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v4  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v5  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v6  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v7  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v8  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 gnumed_v9  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 postgres   | postgres | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
 template0  | postgres | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | =c/postgres
                                                      : postgres=CTc/postgres
 template1  | postgres | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | =c/postgres
                                                      : postgres=CTc/postgres
(17 rows)

MacBook:bootstrap root#
        
-- Jim