Re: onstat: Shared memory: permission denied.

Joe Lumbley wrote: > > Jacob Salomon (jake@garpac.com) wrote: > <snip> > : Where I have no problem: > : m 36865 0x52574801 --rw-rw---- root informix > : m 36866 0x52574802 --rw-rw---- root informix > : m 16387 0x52574803 --rw-rw-rw- root informix > : m 8196 0x52574804 --rw-rw---- root informix > : m 4102 0x52574805 --rw-rw---- root informix > : m 7 0x52574806 --rw-rw---- root informix > > : And on the system where I can't do it: > : m 20481 0x52574801 --rw-rw---- informix informix > : m 20482 0x52574802 --rw-rw---- informix informix > : m 4101 0x52574803 --rw-rw-rw- informix informix > > : No significant difference I can see. > > Look at the ownership of the shared memory segments. I'll bet the > bad system was not installed as root. Looks like it was installed > as user informix. Can you run onmonitor as root? > Looks to me like someone tar'ed the Informix installation on one machine, as informix, and untar'ed it on another instead of doing a clean install. Jake you remember when we found that this had been done here at Bloomberg?! If the serial number forms are handy just rerun the install scripts, if not I have a shell/awk script combination that will read $INFORMIXDIR/etc/onlinefiles and fix all of the permissions and ownerships if run as root. Let me know if you need copies. Art S. Kagel