Re: su error: "shell-init: could not get current directory"?

[Hossein S. Zadeh]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Zaigui Wang wrote:

> I could not su as root to my user account when I issue "su user". the
> error message is as the subject. As a result, I could not start my
> postgresql service. It gave me the same error.

Your current directory is not accessible to the user you are trying to
login as. Either use "su - user" or "cd /" (or somewhere equally
accessible) before "su user".

cheers,
Hossein



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