On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, you wrote:
>Recently I have started seeing this error when starting the server.
>
>shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories
You're starting it from a directory which user postgres does not have access
to. Therefore reading '..' (which the shell that su launched uses to determine
current directory) fails. It doesn't matter, although your solution works.
Other solution: Just use 'cd' instead of 'cd /usr/local/pgsql'
Taral
