Re: online.log not being written to

} } } Re: OnLine 5.03 running on Sun SPARC 10, SunOS 4.1.2 } } We had some trouble with permissions/ownership after a re-install, and tech support } sent us a script "chpog" which is supposed to correct any faulty ownerships and } permissions in INFORMIXDIR (however, the results of "chpog" are not guaranteed). } We ran "chpog", and subsequently everything runs fine except one thing: online.log in } INFORMIXDIR is not being updated. } } MSGPATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/online.log. But strangely (to me), online.log is now } owned by root with permissions -rw-rw-r-- . I thought maybe that was the problem? } (root's group is "daemon"). But I was reluctant to chown this file to informix in } case there's some obscure but good reason it should be owned by root. Advice? } } Mark Heinicke } mheinick@Glue.umd.edu } } Mark, I have nine Informix Online 5.0X engines and each of them had the online log permissions set to 660, and have an owner and group of informix. I changed the permissions to 664, so that any user could read the log, and things have still been running just fine. Have fun. Tracy W. Nedd National Weather Service vball@skipper.ssmc.noaa.gov