[Esa-l] Sanitizer : shell-init: could not get current directory

John D. Hardin jhardin at wolfenet.com
Sun Nov 12 12:01:45 PST 2000


On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Michael H. Martel wrote:

> shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent 
> directories
> job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot 
> access parent directories

Hmm. Do /etc and /etc/procmail have permissions rwxr-xr-x ? This error
means that the user who is receiving the message has no permission to
read or traverse the directory that the shell script is starting up
in, or the parents of that directory.

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