Hi all,

I've successfully installed IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.10.UB4TL on SuSE 10.1. I found an old SuSE machine I'd recently installed SuSE 10.1 on, ( Pentium III 750 Mhz, 500MB RAM ) and it is a great candidate for this beta.

So far the installation went very smooth. I think though you should note that folks need to stop/start the instance
to get the connectivity working after the install. I wasn't able to login to the system till after stopping then restarting the engine, despite having set the following environment variables:

export INFORMIXDIR=/opt/informix
export PATH=${INFORMIXDIR}/bin:${PATH}
export INFORMIXSERVER=demo_on
export ONCONFIG=onconfig.demo_on
export INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=${INFORMIXDIR}/etc/sqlhosts

By the way, it's ok to simply add the above settings to the installation docs, this way people who are not familiar
with the Informix way will be able to get started quicker. I knew enough to add the informix user and group before the installation but did not see this up front in the installation notes, maybe it's there I just didn't see it.

Since I haven't used Informix in quite a few years, I am curious, what release did they add the sysusers database?
If it's what I think it is, it's long overdue to have a user database, I'm assuming for authentication. Sorry if
the question seems dumb but I hadn't heard about this at all till installing the software. Very familiar with the
concept having used MySQL's permission database.

l8r

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