RE: Urgent:chunk pathnames in Informix

That is why it is always a good thing to create soft links to your raw devices when installing Informix. U can name I more meaningful if needed. To solve your problem {this is if u do not have a existing device 187}: ln -s /dev/rdsk/m197_c0d2sd /dev/rdsk/m187_c0d2sd I always make informix the owner+group of the device + chmod 660 -----Original Message----- From: samir singh [SMTP:samirsingh@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 10:20 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Urgent:chunk pathnames in Informix Hi, We have informix6.0 installed on an SVR4 machine. Currently there are 2 chunks added to the informix root dbspace. As part ofupgradation from motorola bug prompt m187 to m197, the name of the device files linked to these chunks changed (from /dev/rdsk/m187_c0d2sd to /dev/rdsk/m197_c0d2sd). But on initializing, Informix is still looking for old device files(i.e /dev/rdsk/m187_c0d2sd). Is there a way to change these links i.e. can we modify the pathnames without re-installing informix? We are able to get the chunk information through onmonitor but using dbaccess results in permission denied (says no permission for modifying SMI tables). As far as user previlege is concerned we are user informis and have granted Update privilege to informix for the concerned sysmaster tables (but the manual says we can't modify it). So, the question is from where informix is reading this information (the pathname of the chunks)? The exact error is : > 11:16:12 Cannot Open Primary Chunk '/dev/rdsk/m187_c0d2sb', errno = 2 > 11:16:12 Cannot Open Primary Chunk '/dev/rdsk/m187_c0d2sc', errno = 2 > 11:16:12 INFORMIX-OnLine Stopped > 11:16:13 mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correctsegments Any help will be appreciated. with regards samir