Re: Informix won't work with yp?

In article <CEL6Kt.Ft9@sparc0a.cs.uiuc.edu> cgregory@sam.cs.uiuc.edu (Christine Gregory) writes: > >We get > > 468: Cannot obtain user id from system: unable to start database engine.> >This is on an HP 800. > >I noticed that root was able to run informix. >So I hacked the local password file to include a non-yp account. >THAT user was also able to run informix. > >Is it a known bug that informix will not run with yp? >(I certainly hope not!) -- Or is there -- hopefully -- a better solution to >this problem? Hi Christine, this problem occures also on my SGI Indigo. I haven't heard a comments on this from INFORMIX, but my workaround is similar to yours. I pasted the content of the yp-passwd (ypcat passwd) into my local /etc/passwd. This helps. But I remember doing this more than once, so occasionally the yp-things in the passwd may get lost. (I don't know when and why - perhaps by adding a new user ?) Anybody out there with a decent solution ? Cheers Wolfgang __________________________________________________________________________ Wolfgang Jeschke SNI ES GIS 22 Munich - Germany /All / SIEMENS Smail: Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 D-81730 Muenchen /these / ======= Email: W.Jeschke@mch.sni.de /words / NIXDORF Phone: +49/89/636-42709 /are / Fax:_____________-43939 _____________________________/mine, not their's/__