On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Geoffrey Myers
<g...@serioustechnology.com> 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 be owned by user
> "postgres".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> Why is it trying to change directory to /root???  Running as the postgres
> user.

Maybe if we could see the script?

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