yes..we installed informix using root.
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Informix Administrative Password
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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).:
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Server Instance
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Dinesh Gulve
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Original Message:
Sent: Mon April 07, 2025 10:11 AM
From: Andreas Legner
Subject: Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group
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
Original Message:
Sent: Mon April 07, 2025 10:08 AM
From: Dinesh Gulve
Subject: Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group
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
Original Message:
Sent: Mon April 07, 2025 10:00 AM
From: Andreas Legner
Subject: Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group
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
Original Message:
Sent: Fri April 04, 2025 01:49 AM
From: Dinesh Gulve
Subject: Error: INFORMIXDIR /home/informix is not owned by group
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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