Re: permission

Moffat wrote: > > Maria L. Wilson wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have informix 7.23 on Solaris 2.6 and am having the following > > problem... > > > > As user informix, I can access any tools installed and do any of the > > onstat, oncheck, etc commands with no problems. > I had some strange permission problems too. Informix wasn't able to do > a lot of the things it should have been able to. I found the problem > was caused because my informix uid and gid in the host file was > different than the informix uid and gid in the nis file. This caused > the files to look like they were owned by informix, but in actuality, > they were owned by a different uid and gid > > > > As a user, I can access tools fine (dbaccess, esql, etc..) but if i try > > to do any of the onstat commands or onmonitor i get the following error: > > onstat: Shared memory: permission denied. > > when I try to get into onmonitor, it says nothing just returns my > > cursor. [cutting] Check the user is a member of the informix group - I've seen this behaviour under Solaris 2.5.1 and DSA7.20 -- Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # It said run using Windows 95 Tel: +44 1436 674629 # or better in the manual Fax: +44 1436 678693 # so I used Unix www.wfsoftware.co.uk #