Re: Question about protection of raw partition and shared libraries

Path: emory!wupost!darwin.sura.net!ukma!widener!dsinc!das13!dave From: dave@das13.snide.com (Dave Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1625@das13.snide.com> Date: 28 Feb 92 02:01:09 GMT References: <1992Feb27.000349.7400@inftec.be> Organization: Snide Inc. - Folcroft, PA In article <1992Feb27.000349.7400@inftec.be>, mike@inftec.be (Mike Aerts) writes: > > I became the sysadmin of a system with Informix ON-LINE 4.0. > I was surprised to see that the protection of the raw partitions > for Informix are crw-rw-rw-. > They told me this was necesary to allow different users to access the > database. Wrong!!! the correct permissions for a raw informix partition are crw-rw---- informix informix or: chmod 660 /dev/WHATEVER chown informix /dev/WHATEVER chgrp informix /dev/WHATEVER > My second surprise was when I saw the size of compiled 4GL code. > These are +/- 300K. So I went looking for a shared library for > Informix, but didn't find it. Can Informix use shared libraries? > That' not at all unusual. We have executables >700K! Are the executables stripped? Have they been compiled with "-O"? DAS -- David A. Snyder @ Snide Inc. - Folcroft, PA Current Release is db4glgen-3.4 UUCP: ..!uunet!das13!dave INTERNET: Dave.Snyder@snide.com