I turned on audit - it continues to say michael as user for accountability. Notice: su changes to /home/postgres and initdb changes to /usr/local/pgsql/bin
FS_Chdir michael OK Thu Jan 07 16:06:35 2010 su Global change current directory to: /home/postgres MLS Data: Not supported FS_Chdir michael OK Thu Jan 07 16:06:38 2010 initdb Global change current directory to: /usr/local/pgsql/bin MLS Data: Not supported On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Michael Felt <mamf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, there is an argument that a system call is using to get somewhere? > Even if it is a number, it is something. I could do an ncheck or whatever to > at least find what it is calling. > > As I am not at all familiar with the code - just give me source to debug, > and I'll work from that. > > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> Michael Felt <mamf...@gmail.com> writes: >> > 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. >> >> Well, the problem is what to print? The failure we are trying to report >> is exactly that we *can't get* the name of the directory. >> >> regards, tom lane >> > >