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onstat: Shared memory: permission denied???

Posted in 2000

Topics: Security, Permissions & Auditing, Platform-Specific Issues

Marc Thompson — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Greetings, I'm receiving the following error message when I run onstat - as any user other than root and informix: #onstat - onstat: Shared memory: permission denied I've searched through Answers Online and found nothing. I am running Informix Dynamic Server.2000 on a RedHat Linux 6.2 system. Any help is appreciated, Marc Thompson -- --------------------------------------- Marc Thompson BOPS, Inc. Austin, TX

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dmoeller@geocities.com — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Marc, You might try adding that 'other' user to the informix group. Here's what 'ipcs' outputs on my system: IPC status from <running system> as of Tue Jun 6 10:38:3 Message Queue facility not in system. T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP Shared Memory: m 800 0x52574801 --rw-rw---- root informix m 801 0x52574802 --rw-rw---- root informix m 802 0x52574803 --rw-rw---- root informix So if a user isn't root, informix or in the informix group they won't have permissions to read the shared memory segments.. The groups on my solaris 2.6 are in /etc/group. Dave In article <960306588.533683@curry>, "Marc Thompson" <MarcT@bops.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm receiving the following error message when I run onstat - as any user > other than root and informix: > > #onstat - > onstat: Shared memory: permission denied > > I've searched through Answers Online and found nothing. > > I am running Informix Dynamic Server.2000 on a RedHat Linux 6.2 system. > > Any help is appreciated, > Marc Thompson > > -- > --------------------------------------- > Marc Thompson > BOPS, Inc. > Austin, TX > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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Marc Thompson — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Thanks to everyone who responded. The solution had eluded me until I read the responses to my post. The problem was simple: I had restored from tape after a crash and the restoration program (Arkeia) failed to set the suid bit on *lots* of files. Onstat has to run suid root. Easy enough to fix. Thanks again, Marc Thompson -- --------------------------------------- Marc Thompson BOPS, Inc. Austin, TX Marc Thompson <MarcT@bops.com> wrote in message news:960306588.533683@curry... > Greetings, > > I'm receiving the following error message when I run onstat - as any user > other than root and informix: > > #onstat - > onstat: Shared memory: permission denied > > I've searched through Answers Online and found nothing. > > I am running Informix Dynamic Server.2000 on a RedHat Linux 6.2 system. > > Any help is appreciated, > Marc Thompson > > -- > --------------------------------------- > Marc Thompson > BOPS, Inc. > Austin, TX > >

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