RE: OnLine, ESQL/C and NIS

In article <1993May7.164713.25643@colorado.edu> you write: > We are running the Network Information Service, a.k.a. Yellow Page, >therefore the local /etc/passwd file on the machine that runs the OnLine engine >does not have a record for me. I can still execute isql and other interactive >utilities, but my ESQL/C process would die with an error number 468: > >"-468 Cannot obtain user id from system: unable to start database server. > We ran into similar problems on the HP platform with INFORMIX OnLine 4.10.UE4 with ISQL 4.10.UD2 and ESQL/C 4.10.UE1. In our case, it was just the opposite. Only the isql program gave us the above error, but the ESQL/C programs worked fine. We had recently updated to 4.10.UG2, and the prolbem is gone. If you do not want to upgrade your INFORMIX, you might want to try the following workaround that had worked for us: % ypcat passwd | grep "^user1:" user1:F89fdskREU:190:300:Test user:/home/user1:/bin/csh Use your favorite editor to add the above entry in the /etc/passwd file on the machine where INFORMIX OnLine is running on. Hope this helps! -- #include <std_disclaimer> Tony Chang email: tony@cwi.com or uunet!cwi!tony CaseWare, Inc. phone: (714) 453-2200 ext. 241