RE: Question about permissions used on onconfig and sqlhosts files

Posted in 2003

Colin Bull — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:31:41 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Andrew Hamm > > I've long whinged bitterly at people who install Informix > into the same > directory that is the informix account's home. Unfortunately > nothing hase > been done traditionally to prevent this. My complaint about > people who do > that is, they do work using the informix account and leave > all sorts of crap > lying around. Is there any way to enforce that $INFORMIXDIR > != ~informix ??? > or make $INFORMIXDIR completely unwritable? Having just gone through the routine of installing 9.4 without overwriting 7.31, I just wish this advice had been followed earlier. We live and learn. There is only so much you can do with symbolic links. Colin Bull c.bull@videonetworks.com > > sending to informix-list