Re: start ontape -c as non-dba

Use another c program to link it. Include following lines in the c program: setuid( id_informix ); system( "ontape -c" ); where id_informix is the informix user id in your system. set mode of this c program to 4755 and owned by informix. Kenneth JoSchneidr wrote in message <19971219234701.SAA23946@ladder02.news.aol.com>... >Hy out there, > >my question in detail is : > >In our company we have a group of people who are responsible for >the productivity-process of our applications, which means that they check >that the database is online, the programs are running etc. >The real dba's don't want them to have access to the shell and login as >a informix dba, but everything I tried to prevent it failed.