OpenIngres with Solaris

From: s.selin@jc.se
Subject: RE: OI 1.2 on Solaris 2.4: install ?

Hi Gregg !

We run O.I 1.2 on Solaris 2.4. Then we upgraded to OI 1.2 the Ingres account
already existed and no changes were necessary, so I don't remember exactly
how I did it then I set up the Ingres account the first time.

However is the ingres account not a member of any kmem group in our
installation. I think you just need to make sure that the Ingres account can
access /dev/kmem.

Sten Selin, Sweden
s.selin@jc.se


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~From: gat@aretha.jax.org

Hi folks,

Anyone out there running OI 1.2 on Solaris 2.4 or higher?  If so, how did you
setup your ingres account, and access to kmem?  The install doc says to create
group kmem, make it the ingres account's primary group, and make /dev/kmem
group kmem, group readable. Seeing as /dev/kmem on stock Sol 2.4 looks like
(it's a symlink to this, actually):

crw-r-----   1 root     sys       13,  1 Oct 25  1994
/devices/pseudo/mm@0:kmem

I'm not inclined to change it's group setting, not knowing what else I might be
doing. I instead made the primary group of the ingres account "sys". Comments?

 - Gregg

Gregg TeHennepe  | Unix Systems Administrator  | The Jackson Laboratory
gat@jax.org      | http://www.jax.org/~gat     | Bar Harbor, Maine  USA



From: Gregg TeHennepe 

Hi folks,

Thanks for the feedback on the ingres/kmem issues, it sounds like as long as
user ingres has read access to kmem, I should be okay.  So far the install is
running without incident.

- Gregg

Gregg TeHennepe  | Unix Systems Administrator  | The Jackson Laboratory
gat@jax.org      | http://www.jax.org/~gat     | Bar Harbor, Maine  USA
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