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Re: Informix raw device with Veritas and Solaris

Posted in 2000

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Storage & Space Management, Platform-Specific Issues

↪ replying to Obnoxio The Clown
smooth1 — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

chown -h informix /dev/informix/dbspace01 chgrp -h infromix /dev/informix/dbspace01 -h does NOT follow the link.. Obnoxio The Clown wrote in message <8ptudd$oci$1@news.xmission.com>... > >From: Gary Quiring <garyq@emcosales.com> >> >>Newbie question. >> >>I have a Sun 4500 with 2 A1000's controllers and Veritas running Solaris 7. >> >>The server was installed with Veritas by the Sun vendor. I requested 2 gig >>partitions, but they are character devices. Is that right? Our current >>SCO system is using block devices. Was something not done right in >>Veritas? > >Uh, no. Your SCO box was never right. > >>I want to install Informix 7.31. Using onmonitor I tried to initialize the >>DB but it won't let me out of the screen. The cursor keeps going back to >>the primary path for the root name which is /dev/informix/dbspace01 >> >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 29 Sep 12 11:37 >>/dev/informix/dbspace01 -> >> /dev/vx/rdsk/informixdg/vol01 >> >>crw------- 1 informix informix 158,94000 Sep 12 11:11 >>/dev/vx/rdsk/informixdg/ >>vol01 > >There's some recursive stuff you have to do IIRC like chmod 660 -R or >something. >_________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > >Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at >http://profiles.msn.com. >

Obnoxio The Clown — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

From: Gary Quiring <garyq@emcosales.com> > >Newbie question. > >I have a Sun 4500 with 2 A1000's controllers and Veritas running Solaris 7. > >The server was installed with Veritas by the Sun vendor. I requested 2 gig >partitions, but they are character devices. Is that right? Our current >SCO system is using block devices. Was something not done right in >Veritas? Uh, no. Your SCO box was never right. >I want to install Informix 7.31. Using onmonitor I tried to initialize the >DB but it won't let me out of the screen. The cursor keeps going back to >the primary path for the root name which is /dev/informix/dbspace01 > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 29 Sep 12 11:37 >/dev/informix/dbspace01 -> > /dev/vx/rdsk/informixdg/vol01 > >crw------- 1 informix informix 158,94000 Sep 12 11:11 >/dev/vx/rdsk/informixdg/ >vol01 There's some recursive stuff you have to do IIRC like chmod 660 -R or something. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

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