Re: Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server

Art S. Kagel wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:05:41 -0400, madiego wrote: >>I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : >> >>This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix >>Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do you wish to continue >>(y/n)? y >>Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Reading >>configuration file '/informix/etc/onconfig'...succeeded Creating >>/INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... FAILED Creating infos file >>"/informix/etc/.infos.demo_se" ... "/informix/etc/.conf.demo_se" ... >>succeeded Writing to infos file ... succeeded Checking config >>parameters...succeeded >>Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded Creating resident pool >>400 kbytes...succeeded Creating buffer pool 402 kbytes...succeeded >>Initializing rhead structure...succeeded Initializing ASF ...Unable to open >>input file 's' Unable to open input file 'c' > > Oo, been a long time since I've seen this one. Notice the line: > > Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... FAILED > > This directory and must exist and must be permissioned as follows: > > drwxrwxrwt 2 root informix 4096 Jul 12 07:58 /INFORMIXTMP That will work, but the preferred owner is informix, not root. And, in future versions, the directory permissions will be 1775 (no public write permission). The only people who might conceivably be inconvenienced are those who use 'private installs' of IDS. Those people have some explaining to do, though - why haven't they reported that the official install process for a private install is broken, and has been for all of the current millenium (since 9.20.UC1, anyway). > Create the directory and try the oninit again. It would also be worth checking the permissions on oninit (should be root:informix:6754 unless you've got enough knowledge to know how to vary the permissions and what the implications of doing so are). -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/