hi tom,
% ls -ald /Volumes/data/pgsql drwxrwxr-x 12 testuser testuser 408 Nov 25 09:12 /Volumes/data/pgsql
Huh? Why didn't the rm -rf remove both of those? Or are you skipping some steps?
oops, sorry, copy-n-paste-itis:
% rm -rf /var/data/pgsql/* /Volumes/data/pgsql/*
% cd /var/data/pgsql % pwd /Volumes/data/pgsql
This is odd ... when I do pwd I see the path as it was told to cd. I have to say /bin/pwd to get what you're showing.
my pwd is aliased to:
alias pwd '/bin/pwd ;\\
set prompt = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]> " ;\\
if (`dirs` == "~") set prompt = "[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "'checking in my ~/.cshrc, tho', it had -- apparently -- been munged in a copy-n-paste to:
alias pwd '/bin/pwd ;\\
set prompt = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]> " ;\\
if (`dirs` == "~") set prompt = "[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "'so,
(a) i corrected the alias
% sudo -u testuser /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb --pgdata=/var/data/pgsql --username=testuser
--> still WORKS if cd to /var first
--> still CHOKES if cd to cd /var/data/pgsql first
% cd /var/data/pgsql still reports the absolute path --> /Volumes/data/pgsql
(b) i unaliased pwd
checking
% alias pwd % which pwd /bin/pwd
same results
hmmmm .... why are you getting different results for 'pwd' and '/bin/pwd'
what does YOUR 'which pwd' tell you?
Couldn't reproduce this, using fully up-to-date 10.3.6.
my gut sez this has GOT to do with my symlinks, etc. ...
The man page for getcwd does say that it will fail with EACCES (ie, "permission denied") if any component of the path is unreadable. You didn't show us all the steps of the paths /private/var/data and /Volumes/data ... maybe there's a non-world-readable directory involved?
methinks you're on to something ...
after cd-int to /var, and inidb'ing ... tho' it DOES create the dirs/data, i caught:
getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied
so, per reuqest, here are the steps to the path:
% unalias pwd
% which pwd
/bin/pwd
% ls -ald /private/var drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel 816 /private/var % ls -ald /var lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 /var -> private/var % ls -ald /var/data lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 27 /var/data -> /Volumes/data % ls -ald /var/data/pgsql drwx------ 12 testuser testuser 408 /var/data/pgsql
(i)
% cd /private/var
% pwd
/private/var(ii)
% cd /var
% pwd
/private/var(iii)
% cd /var/data
% pwd
/Volumes/data
(iv) % cd /var/data/pgsql % pwd /Volumes/data/pgsql
those 'pwd' results have me a bit confused ... sumthin's not right.
(iii) & (iv) are 'pwd's IN a symlinked dir, and result in the full path.
(i) is a 'pwd' in an absolute dir, and returns the absolute path
BUT, (i) is a pwd IN a symlinked path, yet returns the absolute path, unlike (iii)/(iv)
i need to stare some more, and dig a little on getcwd.
again, i think pwd's, and perhaps getcwd's, behavior in _my_ symlinked dirs/path + perms scenario may be the culprit ...
thoughts?
richard
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