tomL wrote:
> we are on informix 9.40 FC2 on HP-UX 11.11 (64 bit) and are having a
> problem initializing. the init hangs on "writing to infos file" - it
> seems like some kind of permissions problem but am not sure. it looks
> like two files are created anew, a .conf file and a .infos file.
> When comparing a system that does not hang, the difference is that the
> files are under root informix on the system that hangs but under
> informix informix on the system that doesn't. the files are read,
> write. i am trying to init under user informix and it seems these
> files are created correctly but then it is like informix cannot write
> to them. it does not help for me to remove the existing files or
> change their owner, as the newly created ones always come up as root.
> thanks for any help!

As TBP suggested, you should look long and hard at the permissions on
$INFORMIXDIR - both directories and executables. If your $INFORMIXDIR
is NFS-mounted, you could easily run into problems if root is not
permitted to write in $INFORMIXDIR/etc, for example, because NFS does
not permit root special privileges. The other possible issue is
whether you are running oninit as root or informix consistently. It
should not matter which user (of those two) runs it, but it might be
the difference.

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