Re: [Gnumed-devel] Problems dumping database (Mac limitation on su -c)

[Jim Busser]

instead of copying the backup scripts into

        /etc/gnumed

I tried running them from their current location in a downloaded tarball . 
After trying to run

        sh gm-backup_database.sh

(even after commenting out the sanity check, on account of Mac su: illegal 
option -- c) I end up with

        could not identify current directory: Permission denied 

presumably on account of the user postgres having no read or write permissions 
on that directory but when I did cd to a shared directory and ran from there

        MacBook-2:Shared root# sh 
/Users/djb/Downloads/gnumed-server.16.rc7/server/gm-backup_database.sh
        Password: 
        Backing up database gnumed_v15.

        However, a newer database seems to exist:

        Password: 
         gnumed_v10 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v11 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v12 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v13 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v14 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v15 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v16 | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v2  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v3  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v4  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v5  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v6  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v7  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v8  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 
         gnumed_v9  | gm-dbo   | UTF8     | en_CA     | en_CA | 

        Make sure you really want to backup the older database !
        Password for user gm-dbo: 
        Password: 
        chown: root: Invalid argument
        MacBook-2:Shared root# open 
/Users/djb/Downloads/gnumed-server.16.rc7/server/

and provided the passwords for postgres (twice) and gm-dbo (twice) is there 
some reason I cannot find any .sql file or tar file written?

-- Jim