Hi ,

Any one could you please let me help me to solve this issue
when i take the ontape backup i am getting the following error
message .

informix@HR-Server:~> ontape -a
Performing automatic backup of logical logs.
The primary group for user informix must be group informix.
Logbackup failed - function open tape device /informix/backup/logs/
failed code -1 errno 0

I also checked the permissions of the file it looks fine

informix@HR-Server:/informix> ll
total 8
drwxrw-r-x 4 informix informix 4096 2011-04-30 11:16 backup
drwxrwx--- 2 informix informix 4096 2011-04-30 11:44 chunks
informix@HR-Server:/informix> cd backup
informix@HR-Server:/informix/backup> ll
total 8
drwxrwx--- 2 informix informix 4096 2011-05-10 05:26 archives
drwxrwx--- 2 informix informix 4096 2011-04-30 11:16 logs

informix@HR-Server:/opt/IBM/informix> onstat -

IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2E -- On-Line -- Up
00:00:13 -- 144156 Kbytes

Thanks in advance .

On May 23, 6:40*am, karthik rajan <karthikrajan1... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Well that error does seem to come from the code where the server is
getting the group id of the directory structure with the group id of
the entry for informix from the password file. So while user informix
is probably in group informix, is group informix it's primary group,
or the group id from the password file?

Jacques Renaut
IBM Informix Advanced Support
APD team

On May 23, 8:22*pm, jrenaut <jpren... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
Hi Renaut,
Thanks for the reply
Could you please clear me how to solve this issue still i am not
clear.

Regards,
Karthik

On May 23, 10:54*pm, karthik rajan <karthikrajan1... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Ok here''s some examples from my unix workstation.

If I grep user informix out of the /etc/passwd file I get the
following:

informix:x:200:102::/export/home/informix:/bin/ksh

So informix userid is 200, and it's primary groupid is 102. So, from
what I said in my previous post, groupid 102 has to then be group
informix. So here would be an example of some /etc/group output that
would be incorrect.

/etc/group:
tech::102:
informix::103:informix

So in the above example, user informix's primary group is tech, but it
then also in group informix.

So to fix this, so that user informix's primary group was informix,
you would then need to modify /etc/passwd file group id and replace
102 with 103, and if you still needed to have user informix in group
tech, add informix into the tech group line of the /etc/group file.

Jacques Renaut
IBM Informix Advanced Support
APD Team