Re: help: oninit -i -> error

In article <33970E81.2335@dvs1.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>, Christoph Liebig <chris@dvs1.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> writes >Hi ! > >Recently our disk holding the informix raw partition failed :( > >We are using online dynamic server 7.1 on solaris 2.5. > >Currently I am trying to setup informix to use another raw partition >(partition 7 on another disk, same host). >I changed my onconfig and tried to initialize by (being root) >oninit -i> >onconfig looks like: > >ROOTPATH /scratch/root_chunk >ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device >ROOTSIZE 20000 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes) >[...]> >However, oninit results in the following error (log msg): > >20:32:12 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) >20:32:13 The chunk '/scratch/root_chunk' must have owner-ID and>group-ID set to informix. > >20:32:13 INFORMIX-OnLine Stopped. >20:32:14 mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct>segments > >/scratch/root_chunk is a symbolic link to the raw partition. This link >was created by user informix as well as group informix. I made >sure that the raw partition is owned by informix/informix and mode >660. > >I even tried not to use a raw partition but a unix file, the same >problems arise. > >Any help is very much appreciated... > >Chris Either /scratch/root_chunk or something it links to is not informix/informix and group 660. You can use chown -h and chgrp -h to change the ownership of a link rather than what the link points to.. -- David Williams