Re: New user to informix

On Thu, 08 Jan 1998 10:35:37 -0800, Erik Frazier <erik_frazier@bmc.com> wrote: >Trying to prepare a testing environment and a Cooked file space. > >I tried doing a cat /dev/null > rootdbs and it comes out with 0 bytes. > >I specified the right parms in the onconfig file, but I get a error >trying to allocate to shared memory. > >Any recommendations? After the cat /dev/null > rootdbs (yes it should be zero bytes then, that's what cat'ing dev null to it does) Did you change the permissions, owner and group? chmod 664 rootdbs chgrp informix rootdbs chown informix rootdbs This will snag you every time.