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  • 1.  Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group

    Posted Fri April 04, 2025 11:39 AM

    Hi,

    OS:
    NAME="SLES"
    VERSION="15-SP5"
    VERSION_ID="15.5"
    PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5"
    ID="sles"
    ID_LIKE="suse"
    ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
    CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sles:15:sp5"

    Informix:

    ibm.server.15.0.0.1.Linux.64.x86_64.tar

    Issue:

    Where we run any command [oninit, onclean, onmode] with informix user which we get error as "Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group <unknown> (gid=-1)". The permissions for /home/informix is informix:informix with 774. We have tried multiple google searches and tries whatever is possible but the issue is not getting resolved.

    Same setup on other flavors like RHEL, Rocky is working as expected.

    Can anyone please help here?



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    Dinesh Gulve
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  • 2.  RE: Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group

    Posted Fri April 04, 2025 03:18 PM

    Hi,

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/sk/informix-servers/14.10.0?topic=unix-onsecurity-utility

    Run onsecurity possibly with verbose or debugging options.


    Regards,
    David.



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    David Williams
    Senior Database Platform Engineer
    Flutter
    London
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  • 3.  RE: Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group

    Posted Mon April 07, 2025 10:00 AM

    Hi Dinesh,

    this seems to indicate that the stat() call somehow doesn't return a valid group ID for group informix.

    How are your users and groups defined?  Did you let the Informix installer create both user and group informix?

    Also, can you post "ls -l /home/informix/bin/oninit", please?

     Andreas



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    Andreas Legner
    Informix Dev
    HCL Software
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  • 4.  RE: Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group

    Posted Mon April 07, 2025 10:08 AM

    ls -l /home/informix/bin/oninit
    -r-xr-xr-- 1 root informix 27614144 Feb 22 04:40 /home/informix/bin/oninit



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    Dinesh Gulve
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  • 5.  RE: Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group

    Posted Mon April 07, 2025 10:11 AM

    Oh, this clearly is missing its s-bit super-powers - how did you install this, into this directory? Using the Informix installer and running as root?



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    Andreas Legner
    Informix Dev
    HCL Software
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  • 6.  RE: Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group

    Posted Mon April 07, 2025 10:28 AM

    yes..we installed informix using root.

     
    ===============================================================================
     
     
    Please Wait
    -----------
     
     
     
    ===============================================================================
    Informix Administrative Password
    --------------------------------
     
    Type 'back' to go to the previous step or 'quit' to cancel the installation.
    In order to create and run a server instance on this platform, you must
    provide a password for the user that will be running the instance.
     
     
    Enter the password for user informix (user will be created).:
     
     
     
    ===============================================================================
    Server Instance
    ---------------
     
    Type 'back' to go to the previous step or 'quit' to cancel the installation.
     
    Create a database server instance?
     
     
     
      ->1- Yes - create a server instance
        2- No - do not create a server instance
     
    ENTER THE NUMBER FOR YOUR CHOICE, OR PRESS <ENTER> TO ACCEPT THE DEFAULT:


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    Dinesh Gulve
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  • 7.  RE: Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group

    Posted Mon April 07, 2025 10:11 AM
    should be

    -rwsr-sr-- 1 root informix 29165408 May  2  2023 /home/informix/live/bin/oninit


    On 4/7/2025 9:08 AM, Dinesh Gulve via IBM TechXchange Community wrote:
    0100019610947144-9640e4d5-f9f0-4907-9c1f-9ea268fbb7e8-000000@email.amazonses.com">
    ls -l /home/informix/bin/oninit -r-xr-xr-- 1 root informix 27614144 Feb 22 04:40 /home/informix/bin/oninit ------------------------------... -posted to the "Informix" group



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  • 8.  RE: Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group

    Posted Mon April 07, 2025 10:43 AM

    Thanks a lot Paul !!!!!

    I am able to proceed ahead. DB configuration is successful.



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    Dinesh Gulve
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