*"You might be able to avoid the need for the getcwd call at startup by exporting PWD*"
Sorry,would you give us more details about how to avoid the "error" message Thanks very much LynnOS 2008/7/13 Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > LynnOS wrote: >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux-vserver:~# pwd >>> /root >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux-vserver:~# ls -ld /root >>> drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 3 14:52 /root >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux-vserver:~# su lynn >>> *shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access >>> parent directories: Permission denied* >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux-vserver:/root$ >>> >> > This is not a bash problem. You're in a directory which can be read and > searched only by root, and you're su'ing to another user. That user > does not have permission to search the current directory, even to find > `..', so getcwd is going to fail. > > *You might be able to avoid the need for the getcwd call at startup by > exporting PWD, *so the child shell can read it, but there aren't any > guarantees. > > Chet > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ <http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/%7Echet/> > > > -- OpenEmbedded,Linux vserver,Python
