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- From: davek@informix.com (David Kosenko)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: INF4.1 -1 ERROR ?? problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.161421.17027@informix.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:14:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.135401.13690@siemens.co.at>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- Rigby writes:
- >
- >HELP !!!
- >We have just started getting a new error which is described nowhere
- >in the INFORMIX literature (whats new): -1. This happens when we
- >install our package on UNIX . In one of our package-installation-scripts
- >we start tbinit and straight afterwards try a drop database in a 4GL
- >program. This gives us an error -1.
- >
- >Any ideas ?? Is it something to do with tbinit not being quite
- >finished ?
-
- Any error code less that 100 are Unix errors that are propagated back to
- the user. The reason they are undocumented in Informix literature is that
- they are not necessarily the same across different platforms, so we would
- have to have the definitions for each platform we support, which could
- wind up being a lot of dead trees ;-0.
-
- Generally, a -1 error means "Not owner." Is the 4gl program executable by
- the id running the install (presumably root)? Do the permissions on the
- database allow this user to access it (actually, this user would need
- dba permission to drop the database)?
-
- Dave
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