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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

-t-

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So I'll continue to talk to myself...

After struggling with the ISA CPIO file ( who's the dipshit at IBM that decided to put it in CPIO? WTF WERE YOU THINKING JACKASS? ) I finally got it extracted only to have to extract YET ANOTHER CPIO FILE. Christ almighty, create a cpio file to store yet another cpio file. So, Informix will be friendly like MySQL? I don't think so...

Would it have been too easy to use tar? Guess somebody was feeling like they had to make it difficult...

After going through all the tedious options for cpio, I got it working:

cpio -idumBv < isa.cpi
ls -l
cpio -idumBv < isa.1.70.UC1B1.cpio

( You probably don't need the "B" on Linux, but wtf do I know about cpio, haven't used it in years. )

Anyway...

Guessing at this point due to lack of a README, I boldly kicked off installisa, and after some scary prompts I watched it go into an endless loop displaying:

../htpasswd: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Sorry!

Looks like I'll be staying with the command line for a while.

-t-


Tool wrote:
> 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
>
> -t-
>

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Tool said:
> Looks like I'll be staying with the command line for a while.

Not the sharpest tool in the shed, then? )

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Obnoxio The Clown wrote:
> Tool said:
>> Looks like I'll be staying with the command line for a while.
>
> Not the sharpest tool in the shed, then? )
>

Ya got me.

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