Re: onstat: Shared memory: permission denied.

Jacob Salomon (jake@garpac.com) wrote: <snip> : Where I have no problem: : m 36865 0x52574801 --rw-rw---- root informix : m 36866 0x52574802 --rw-rw---- root informix : m 16387 0x52574803 --rw-rw-rw- root informix : m 8196 0x52574804 --rw-rw---- root informix : m 4102 0x52574805 --rw-rw---- root informix : m 7 0x52574806 --rw-rw---- root informix : And on the system where I can't do it: : m 20481 0x52574801 --rw-rw---- informix informix : m 20482 0x52574802 --rw-rw---- informix informix : m 4101 0x52574803 --rw-rw-rw- informix informix : No significant difference I can see. Look at the ownership of the shared memory segments. I'll bet the bad system was not installed as root. Looks like it was installed as user informix. Can you run onmonitor as root? joe -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) author of: "INFORMIX DBA Survival Guide" Slaving away on "INFORMIX DBA Survival Guide, The SQL", available late 1998 from Prentice Hall/Informix Press. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------