Re: IDS and Snow Leopard

On 09/09/2009 17:09, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 13:51, Clive Eisen<clive@serendipita.com> wrote: >> On 27/08/2009 15:31, Clive Eisen wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone tried IDS with Snow Leopard's betas? >>> >>> Does it work? >> >> To answer my own question a snow leapoard upgrade breaks IDS >> >> Clive-Eisens-MacBook-Pro:~ informix$ onstat >> Group informix not found. >> Clive-Eisens-MacBook-Pro:~ informix$ oninit -v >> Group informix not found. >> >> ho hum > > >> From a bug report (idsdb00190054): > > > During Snow Leopard certification, it was found that the OS X upgrade > process replaced the informix user and group entries in /etc/passwd > and /etc/group with OS X proprietary entries. > > Apple GUI tools start assigning user and group IDs at 500, whereas the > Informix installer starts at 100. > > The installers should use a safe range of IDs when creating the > informix user and group. > > Workaround is to manually create the informix user and group, then > reinstall the product. > This works with 32bit kernel The easiest way to create the group and to modify the existing informix user is to install http://support.apple.com/downloads/Server_Admin_Tools_10_6 and attach to 'locallhost' Not tested yet with 64bit kernel -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.