Hi Y'all.

Interesting (i.e.. frustrating as all blazes) problem I have trying to start up on a bug-fix copy of oninit. I start up oninit and it dies right away with the error message:

Secondary Delay or Stop Apply: The log staging directory (/usr/informix/<subdir>log_staging_dir) is not secure.

Really? My directory listing says otherwise:

drwxrwx---   5 informix informix       5 Oct 28  2021 /informix/IDS-14.10.FC8D3/<subdir>/log_staging_dir

Looks as secure as the same directory in for a previous release. And so do all if its subdirectories, none of which have been touched since 2021 or earlier.

Now I did google this problem and found a solution that is meaningless in my context.  It suggests:

• Manually altering the group on the log staging directory to the group that owns $INFORMIXDIR/etc and restarting the RSS server fixes the problem.

$INFORMIXDIR/etc also owned by [informix:informix] and, as you can see, gives no permission to anyone outside user and group informix.  And there is no active RSS on this box.

Before I open a tedious ticket with HCL, has anyone see this and solved it? How?!

Thank much for help here.

-- Jacob S

Jacob,

Check the permissions of _all_ directories in the path to the directory
that it is complaining about, starting from '/' (root directory) on down.
Maybe one of those is bad?

scot

Hi Y'all.

Interesting (i.e.. frustrating as all blazes) problem I have trying to start up on a bug-fix copy of oninit. I start up oninit and it dies right away with the error message:

Secondary Delay or Stop Apply: The log staging directory (/usr/informix/<subdir>log_staging_dir) is not secure.

Really? My directory listing says otherwise:

drwxrwx---   5 informix informix       5 Oct 28  2021 /informix/IDS-14.10.FC8D3/<subdir>/log_staging_dir

Looks as secure as the same directory in for a previous release. And so do all if its subdirectories, none of which have been touched since 2021 or earlier.

Now I did google this problem and found a solution that is meaningless in my context.  It suggests:

• Manually altering the group on the log staging directory to the group that owns $INFORMIXDIR/etc and restarting the RSS server fixes the problem.

$INFORMIXDIR/etc also owned by [informix:informix] and, as you can see, gives no permission to anyone outside user and group informix.  And there is no active RSS on this box.

Before I open a tedious ticket with HCL, has anyone see this and solved it? How?!

Thank much for help here.

-- Jacob S

Hi Y'all.

Interesting (i.e.. frustrating as all blazes) problem I have trying to start up on a bug-fix copy of oninit. I start up oninit and it dies right away with the error message:

Secondary Delay or Stop Apply: The log staging directory (/usr/informix/<subdir>log_staging_dir) is not secure.

Really? My directory listing says otherwise:

drwxrwx---   5 informix informix       5 Oct 28  2021 /informix/IDS-14.10.FC8D3/<subdir>/log_staging_dir

Looks as secure as the same directory in for a previous release. And so do all if its subdirectories, none of which have been touched since 2021 or earlier.

Now I did google this problem and found a solution that is meaningless in my context.  It suggests:

• Manually altering the group on the log staging directory to the group that owns $INFORMIXDIR/etc and restarting the RSS server fixes the problem.

$INFORMIXDIR/etc also owned by [informix:informix] and, as you can see, gives no permission to anyone outside user and group informix.  And there is no active RSS on this box.

Before I open a tedious ticket with HCL, has anyone see this and solved it? How?!

Thank much for help here.

-- Jacob S