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Re: Install error: Can't find message file ....

Posted in 2000

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Connectivity: ESQL/C, 4GL & Embedded SQL, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

Richard Savage — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Richard Savage wrote: Also, INFORMIXDIR must be set before you start the install and the install must be done as user Informix, NOT root, or permissions and ownership will be wrong on the Informix directory and sub-directories. Ian Briscoe wrote: > > Did you install in the correct order - ie IDS AFTER Esql. Informix is > very fussy on the order in which products are installed? > > Brett Randall wrote: > > > And did you check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG? What were they set to? > > > > honglus@my-deja.com wrote: > > > > > > I install Esql+IDS7.3 on sco openserver > > > $oninit -iy > > > Can't find message file ,check INFORMIXDIR an DBLANG > > > > > > Just install IDS 7.3 ,no error messages > > > > > > Can you help me > > > thank you!! > > > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > > > Before you buy.

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Art S. Kagel — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Um, no, the install insists that it be done by root for 7.3x. Only 9.2x requires installation by informix and then running a ROOT portion by root afterward. Art S. Kagel Richard Savage wrote: > > Richard Savage wrote: > > Also, INFORMIXDIR must be set before you start the install and the > install must be done as user Informix, NOT root, or permissions and > ownership will be wrong on the Informix directory and > sub-directories. > > Ian Briscoe wrote: > > > > Did you install in the correct order - ie IDS AFTER Esql. Informix is > > very fussy on the order in which products are installed? > > > > Brett Randall wrote: > > > > > And did you check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG? What were they set to? > > > > > > honglus@my-deja.com wrote: > > > > > > > > I install Esql+IDS7.3 on sco openserver > > > > $oninit -iy > > > > Can't find message file ,check INFORMIXDIR an DBLANG > > > > > > > > Just install IDS 7.3 ,no error messages > > > > > > > > Can you help me > > > > thank you!! > > > > > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > > > > Before you buy.

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