Re: Trouble adding new dbspace

Michael L. Gallagher (mgallagh@motown.lmco.com) wrote: : I am having extreme diffculty adding a new dbspace to my environment here (Solaris 2.5.1 and NIS+). : onmonitor complains that informix is not the owner nor group of the files I want to access (both : cooked and raw). I have opened the permissions wide on both and it still refuses. I thought it was : a problem in how the raw device was set up, but I see that even a cooked file cannot be added. Must : I be root under NIS+ to do this? : It's not a matter of having permission to read/write the device. Informix is looking for a specific permission (660) and specific ownership and group (informix/informix by default). Change the permissions and ownership of your raw device as stated and see if that helps. Also, check the group id of your oninit executable. oninit doesn't really check to see if the owner/group of your chunk are informix/informix. Rather it checks to see that the owner/group of your chunk match the group id of the oninit executable. Since our installation process changes the group id of oninit to informix, we document that your chunks must have owner/group of informix. However, if your installation didn't go quite right, or someone for some reason changed the group id, this could be the problem as well. (This was true at least in 7.1, can't state for sure about 7.2 or higher).