solaris IDS 9.4 wont start after patch install
Zombie reported that after patching Solaris 8, IDS 9.4 could not resolve the service name from /etc/services; using a port number in sqlhosts let it start, but users failed with -951 and a shadow password failure. Neil Truby asked about /etc/services permissions; zombie showed a symlink to inet/services. david advised checking the entries and netstat. Unresolved.
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Hi Folks,
After installing patches on a solaris 8 system and trying to start informix.
Informix is not able to look up /etc/services file to translate the service name
to a port number, so I put the actual port number in the sql hosts file. Then
informix would come up.
Now it doesn't allow any user to log on as it says..
12:55:01 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed!
12:55:01 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
12:55:01 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrectpassword or user abc is not known on the database server.
System error = 4.
12:55:02 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed!
12:55:02 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
12:55:02 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrectpassword or user abc is not known on the database server.
System error = 4.
Any pointers would be greatly helpful....
Thanks,
Zombie
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Permissions on /etc/services?
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"zombie" <zombie_member@newsguy.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Folks,
>
> After installing patches on a solaris 8 system and trying to start
> informix.
> Informix is not able to look up /etc/services file to translate the
> service name
> to a port number, so I put the actual port number in the sql hosts file.
> Then
> informix would come up.
>
> Now it doesn't allow any user to log on as it says..
> 12:55:01 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed!
> 12:55:01 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
> 12:55:01 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrect> password or user abc is not known on the database server.
> System error = 4.
> 12:55:02 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed!
> 12:55:02 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
> 12:55:02 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrect> password or user abc is not known on the database server.
> System error = 4.
>
>
> Any pointers would be greatly helpful....
>
> Thanks,
> Zombie
>
>
> --
> zombie
>Permissions on /etc/services? > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 23 2004 /etc/services -> ./inet/services -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 3724 Dec 13 11:17 /etc/inet/services -- zombie
Is the entry still in /etc/services? What does netstat -a show for the port Informix is listening on? A port number or service name? I once had a client patch a system and somehow /etc/services was replaced with the default one rather than the one containing my entries.