Re: onstat: Shared memory: permission denied.
Jacob Salomon wrote:
> INFORMIX-OnLine Version 7.12.UC1
> AIX ***** 1 4 ***********
>
> Hi Family.
>
> I have run into an anomaly on an AIX machine. Normally, even as a
> vanilla user, I can run onstat commands and even get a limted menu
> onmonitor.
>
> On this system, onstat earns me the above message. If I try to run
> onmonitor, I get:
>
> Unable to attach to shared memory.
> Permission denied
>
> YARGHHHhhhh!!
> What could possible be causing this grief? I have compared the ipcs -m
> output on another AIX system:
>
> Where I have no problem:
> m 36865 0x52574801 --rw-rw---- root informix
> m 36866 0x52574802 --rw-rw---- root informix
> m 16387 0x52574803 --rw-rw-rw- root informix
> m 8196 0x52574804 --rw-rw---- root informix
> m 4102 0x52574805 --rw-rw---- root informix
> m 7 0x52574806 --rw-rw---- root informix
>
> And on the system where I can't do it:
> m 20481 0x52574801 --rw-rw---- informix informix
> m 20482 0x52574802 --rw-rw---- informix informix
> m 4101 0x52574803 --rw-rw-rw- informix informix
>
> No significant difference I can see.
>
> So wazzamatta?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> -- Jake (Retrospectively realizes there is no future in hindsight)
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If you can access onmonitor OK as root check your installation, you might
need to re-install - if you don't have the serial key handy you used to be
able to NOBRAND before running the installation - that would just correct
the permissions. Remember to do it as root.
Also check /etc/groups - I had this problem on Solaris where there was
corruption (OK typo) in the groups file which prevented any user after the
error from using onmonitor
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