Re: Chunks Disappeared After Reboot!

In article <5n46rf$6fh@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Jonathan Leffler <johnl@informix.com> writes > >Tip #1: do not use /dev/anything in the OnLine configuration files. > I use a special directory like /ix.dev or /usr/informix/dev, > and create the chunk devices there. > Agreed always use links... >Tip #2: Add a system-specific startup script which sets the Informix device > permissions when the machine is started. This might go in > /etc/init.d and /etc/rc2.d (on my Sun Solaris 2.5 machine, which is > SVR4 look-alike, mostly). It would do something like: > > chown informix /usr/informix/dev/* > chgrp informix /usr/informix/dev/* > chmod 660 /usr/informix/dev/* > Agreed - 660 informix informix > Note that this will change the permissions on the actual device at > the end of the chain of symbolic links, not on the symlinks > themselves. > > If you want to get more fancy, you can also reset the permissions > on the corresponding block device (for me, that's /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s6 > and /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s4), so that the permissions are set to deny all > access (chmod 0). That requires a slightly different (more chmod 0, I thought it should be 660 informix informix as above? > complex) script. > >Yours, >Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> -- David Williams