Help! for informix-sql demo

Yan Qu <yq22+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > > >Hello, I'm trying to install the informix-sql demo database using >"isqldemo". The version I'm using is Version 2.10.00B for unix >pmax_mach. > >I got the following error messages when runing "isqldemo": > >"INFORMIX-SQL Demonstration Database Installation Script >Dropping existing stores database .... >Error in line 1>Near character position 21 >Creating stores database .... >Error in line 1>Near character position 2 >Error in line 13>Near character position 2 >Error in line 9 >... (more errors like above) >Now copying PERFORM source files .... >Now copying ACE source files ....>" > >After the script, I get in my working directory "stores.dbs" along >with other .sql .ace files etc. But nothing is found in stores.dbs. >I can start "isql" ok, but when I tried to access database stores, I >got error: > >329: database not found or no system permission >2: no such file or directory > >If I tried to create my own db, I got the error: > >330: cannot create database". > >I would appreciate any hints. Thanks a lot! > >Yan Qu >yqu@cs.cmu.edu > It sounds like you may have the permissions on the ISQL product out of sync. I would suggest you go to $INFORMIXDIR and check the permissions for each binary in a file called ISQLFILES if I remember correctly. It has been a long time since I had my hands on a V2 copy of Informix ISQL. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Gordon E. Hooker MACS PCP 25 Clarke Street Ripley Queensland Australia Phone 61-7-32940555 Email gordonh@thehub.com.au _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ We are just two lost souls living in a fish bowl Year after year Pink Floyd