Error -951: the solution

FYI: Last week I posted an article describing an environment in which receiving INFORMIX error -951 both from Ilogin and from onmonitor. Th the problem was the ownership of the oninit executable in $INFORMIXDIR oninit executable, which has 6755 permissions, was informix. It is su owned by root. As a result of the setuid bit set, when oninit is exec supposed to be executed with root privilege. When it was owned by inf oninit command appeared to work (i.e., the database was usable with db but it did not work properly. -- Steve Morgan DynCorp 703-222-1798 morgans@usva9.dyncorp.com (preferred) 75667,2360 (CompuServe)