Oninit engine won't start: log staging directory is not secure
Jacob Salomon's bug-fix copy of oninit died at startup claiming the log staging directory was not secure, though directory permissions looked right. Scot Jenkins suggested checking every directory in the path; Andreas Legner asked for a listing of the oninit binary. The binary was owned by informix:informix instead of root:informix; fixing ownership solved it.
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Hi Y'all.
Interesting (i.e.. frustrating as all blazes) problem I have trying to start up on a bug-fix copy of oninit. I start up oninit and it dies right away with the error message:
Secondary Delay or Stop Apply: The log staging directory (/usr/informix/<
subdir
>log_staging_dir) is not secure.
Really? My directory listing says otherwise:
drwxrwx--- 5 informix informix 5 Oct 28 2021 /informix/IDS-14.10.FC8D3/<
subdir
>/log_staging_dir
Looks as secure as the same directory in for a previous release. And so do all if its subdirectories, none of which have been touched since 2021 or earlier.
Now I did google this problem and found
a solution that is meaningless in my context
. It suggests:
Manually altering the group on the log staging directory to the group that owns
$INFORMIXDIR/etc
and restarting the RSS server fixes the problem.
$INFORMIXDIR/etc also owned by [informix:informix] and, as you can see, gives no permission to anyone outside user and group informix. And there is no active RSS on this box.
Before I open a tedious ticket with HCL, has anyone see this and solved it? How?!
Thank much for help here.
-- Jacob S
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Jacob Salomon
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Jacob, Check the permissions of _all_ directories in the path to the directory that it is complaining about, starting from '/' (root directory) on down. Maybe one of those is bad? scot
Can we see "ls -l $INFORMIXDIR/bin/oninit*" ? Also: "which <name_of_your_oninit_binary>". ------------------------------ Andreas Legner Informix Dev HCL Software ------------------------------
Hi Scott.
That was indeed the problem: the oninit binary was owned by informix:informix with correct permission settings: 6754. So I initially overlooked ownership.
Was supposed to root:informix. As soon as I noticed that & fixed it, it came up just fine.
Thanks for the alert on that one.
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Jacob Salomon
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