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- From: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: INF4.1 -1 ERROR ?? problem
- Message-ID: <memo.830396@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 17:49:00 GMT
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec23.161421.17027@informix.com> davek@informix.com (David Kosenko)
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- TITLE: Re: INF4.1 -1 ERROR ?? problem
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- In <1992Dec23.161421.17027@informix.com> David Kosenko writes:
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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)?
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- Surely this should be user informix?
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