RE: onstat: Shared memory: permission denied???

[cutting] >>...Next week I'll bring up the question: >>"Why not create every database/table/index/procedure/trigger as user >>informix?" > >Why not make everyone in the company a member of the bin and root groups >too? Once worked for a company, a software house, where everybody logged in as root :-))) Did they have some fun!!!!!! Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # You are only young once Tel: +44 1436 674729 # but you can be immature Fax: +44 1436 678693 # forever www.wfsoftware.com # The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user(s) of the mail address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever, and any actions taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful.

In article <8hqas3$mf5$1@news.xmission.com>, Watson Paul <Paul.Watson@fefc.ac.uk> writes > >Once worked for a company, a software house, where everybody logged in >as root :-))) Did they have some fun!!!!!! > > >Paul Watson # >WF Software Ltd # You are only young once >Tel: +44 1436 674729 # but you can be immature >Fax: +44 1436 678693 # forever >www.wfsoftware.com # Once worked for a customer where I announced who I was, was shown upstairs and was left ALONE for 20 MINUTES in front of a terminal which a) was logged in as root b) contained software which was used to raise invoices to pay suppliers!...Once the users got the live and test systems mixed up and paid Tesco's 10,000 pounds and Eurodisney some money as well. i.e. no checks on the invoices produced by the software! I could have paid myself 10,000 pounds and walked out! L^Husers! > -- David Williams