Bad GROUP-ID prob.

Posted in 1998

Patrick Stacey — Mon, 13 Apr 1998 05:58:34 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

ENGINE: OWGS 7.1.2 PLATFORM: SOLARIS 2.5.1 ERROR: Bad GROUP-ID 1. I am trying to create a new dbspace using onspaces, i.e. as a cooked file : .1 first I cat /dev/null into an empty file: cat /dev/null > /usr/informix/dbspace/esquare98dbs .2 then i use onspaces: onspaces -c -d esquare98dbs -p /usr/informix/dbspace/esquare98dbs -o1000 -s 4000 2. the engine's response is: Verifying physical disk space, please wait ... Bad GROUP-ID: '/usr/informix/dbspace/esquare98dbs'. 3. Here are the permissions for the above chunk and root chunk: -rw-rw---- 1 informix informix 0 Apr 13 11:16 esquare98dbs -rw-rw---- 1 informix informix 20480000 Apr 13 11:58 rootdbs 4. group 'informix' is valid and is correctly listed in the /etc/group file: informix::5000:informix 5. Here are the permissions for the /etc/group file: -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 984 Mar 21 13:00 /etc/group 6. Permissions for onspaces executable: -rwxrwsrwx 2 informix informix 466864 Mar 19 1997 onspaces* 7. ENVIRONMENT variables for user informix: INFORMIXDIR=/usr/informix INFORMIXSERVER=ifmx_online INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=/usr/informix/etc/sqlhosts.ifmx INFORMIXTERM=terminfo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/ns-home/bin/https:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/opt/SUNWsymon/lib::.:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin:/usr/ns-home/browser3.0:/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin:/opt/SUNWsymon/bin:/opt/SUNWsymon/sbin:/usr/openwin/bin:.:/binLOGNAME=informix MAIL=/var/mail/informix ONCONFIG=onconfig.ifmx PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ns-home/mysql/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/X11R6/bin://bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/rpa/etc:/usr/games:/usr/local/unsupport/java/java/bin:/usr/local/java/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/local/bin://bin:.PS1=www # SHELL=/sbin/sh TERM=xterm TERMINFO=/usr/share/lib/terminfo TZ=Singapore HOSTTYPE=sun4 VENDOR=sun OSTYPE=solaris MACHTYPE=sparc SHLVL=1 PWD=/usr/informix/bin USER=informix GROUP=informix ------------------------------- Many thanks for any help in trouble shooting this baby!!!!!!!!!! TIA Patrick Stacey