Re: can't create new dbspace

In article <58640u$s9p@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, billy@west.co.za says... > >On 4 Dec 96 at 10:37, jeffs@opennet.net wrote: > >> We created a root dbspace a while ago before the OS was all set up. Later we >> installed SQL and 4GL and re-installed Online with those and have been using the >> database. But now we can't create another dbspace. From the command line it >> causes a core dump, and from onmonitor it claims that the new file for the >> dbspace is not user and group are not `informix`. We have checked all >> permissions and user informix many times, but it just doesn't believe it. > >Just to be sure - are you using the cooked or raw disk driver? Are >your permissions 660? > I think it's interesting that all the responses to this problem were directed towards the raw device. I don't think it could have been the problem because I *can* write files to the same directories as the user informix, the only thing that didn't work was the utility to create a dbspace. I actually found the problem, the ownership of the utility (in informix/bin). Some of the executables were of root:system instead of root:informix, which confused the internal check that apparently checks for the same permission as itself. So I had to run 'installonline' which sets all permissions and ownerships in the directory structure. --Thanx all, jeffs