Re: [GENERAL] weird initdb output

2010-06-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Geoffrey Myers 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

Re: [GENERAL] weird initdb output

2010-06-28 Thread Geoffrey
Tom Lane wrote: Geoffrey writes: 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 b

[GENERAL] weird initdb output

2010-06-28 Thread Geoffrey Myers
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 us

Re: [GENERAL] weird initdb output

2010-06-28 Thread Tom Lane
Geoffrey writes: > 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

Re: [GENERAL] weird initdb output

2010-06-28 Thread John R Pierce
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

[GENERAL] weird initdb output

2010-06-28 Thread Geoffrey
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 us