I am getting the following message when I try to initialize ism:

*** You need to set $INFORMIXDIR before running the ISM setup script.

I have $INFORMIXDIR set up. I am wondering why ISM won't let me
initialize.

The only other thing that was odd when I was installing IDS 11.7 was
that the onconfig I created did not belong to group informix. This was
corrected with chown. I also changed the owner of all the files I
created like the environment variable file. Other than that, I
followed the same steps I did when I installed on our test
environment.

On Mar 7, 3:35*pm, Jeremiah <yogensha.... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

What os?? is it linux??? and if so
do you have ksh installed???

you can have a look in ism_startup since it is a script the first few
lines check for informixdir....

Superboer.

On 7 mrt, 23:16, Jeremiah <yogensha.... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

The OS is AIX 6.1. Upon digging a little further it looks as if sudo
is unable to see $INFORMIXDIR. I don't know if that makes sense. When
I run the file without sudo, it does seem to recognize $INFORMIXDIR
but of course it throws the message that I need to run it as root.

On Mar 8, 2:32*am, Superboer <superbo... (AT) t-online (DOT) de> wrote:

if it works:

sudo su -

and set your env properly

sounds like sudo does not have INFORMIXDIR set.

maybe sudo env > x may tell you that INFORMIXDIR is not set??


Superboer.


On 8 mrt, 15:48, Jeremiah <yogensha.... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

"it looks as if sudo
is unable to see $INFORMIXDIR"

errm...you *did* export it, didn't you?

Yes I did and it's being called from an environment file once you log
on via .profile. I'm working with our unix folk to solve the problem
right now.

On Mar 8, 8:58*am, Malc <mal... (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote:

This is solved. Unix folk had to make changes in sudo's behavior.

On Mar 8, 10:02*am, Jeremiah <yogensha.... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote: