Walter Vaughan typed (on Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:52:18PM -0400):
| Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
|
| >OSR 5.0.6.
| >A system with hundreds of users and hundreds of printers and hundreds of
| >printing jobs every day yesterday produced six or seven error messages
| >like the following for various printer destinations:
| >shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
| >directories: Permission denied
|
| JP, you've been chasing this down at least since at least the first week of
| June. You've never talked about the topology of the system. Is it a single
| drive, a raid array, NFS, etc... something that would cause the filesystem
| spooling directory to not be all it could be.
|

I guess I should realize that my gray matter is fading, 'cause I can't
recall having posted about this before. :-)

IAC, it's a 4-CPU machine under RAID 1.
Nearly 10,000 messages have been printed since those errors were seen
about 24 hours ago.


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JP