RE: 7.20: CONNECT TO 5.02 -> error -591

Langs Is it possible that there is a user defined in B:/etc/passwd who is = logging on to the A machine and whose login is not defined in = A:/etc/passwd? I had this problem on one of my test machines here. Even = if you are using yellow pages to define all the users on a central = passwd database, Informix just checks for the local /etc/passwd. BTW, error -519 says "Cannot update column to illegal value." on my = machine. I am running Informix 5.02UC1 on HP-UX 9.x here. Maybe its = different for different machines? Hope this helps Sujit Pal DBA, Computer Sciences Corp. ---------- From: Langs Gerhard[SMTP:glangs@pe.langs.co.at] Sent: Friday, October 11, 1996 1:24 AM To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu Subject: 7.20: CONNECT TO 5.02 -> error -591 Machine A: AIX 3.2.5 I ONLINE 5.02 Machine B ("amadeus"): AIX 4.1.4 I ONLINE 7.20 Trying to connect from machine B (via esql/c or dbaccess) to machine A results in error -591: User is not known on the database server (note the obviously empty user name!) This happens in esql/c with any variant of the CONNECT TO stmt, and also with the DATABASE stmt. The sqlexecd-log ($INFORMIXDIR/lib/sqlexecd myservice -l /tmp/sqlexecd.log) on machine A shows corrupted lines: .. ^A^?^A< amadeus ^A^?^A< amadeus .. instead of the correct lines, e.q sqlexec amadeus myusername -dmydatabase This also happens when I use Online 7.13 on machine B, however 7.10 works fine. Any hints, whats going wrong ? Thanks. --=20 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Langs Gerhard glangs@mail.Austria.eu.net