Yesterday I sent the message (included beneath my signature) about changing
the ddr.db file permissions after rebuilding the database. The question seems
to remain open since I have had no replies to that.
Sorry,
Irene
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Irene A. Shilikhina wrote:
>
> Hello managers,
>
> initially the ownership and permissions of ddr files were the following:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 18108 Apr 30 1999 /etc/ddr.db
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 59580 Dec 30 1997 /etc/ddr.dbase
>
> After rebuilding the data base (/sbin/ddr_config -c as root) I have:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 18108 Nov 3 13:41 /etc/ddr.db
>
> If I'm doing it as bin, I'm getting:
>
> Error: Permission denied
> ddr_config: Unable to open DDR database file /etc/ddr.db
> ** Update of DDR database aborted **
>
> It's almost the same what I've noticed in booting messages yet since I
> installed the system (4.0D):
>
> Nov 1 13:44:10 alpha vmunix: DDR: WARNING: Unable to obtain Device Information
> Database
> Nov 1 13:44:10 alpha vmunix: Unable to open file /etc/ddr.db
> Nov 1 13:44:10 alpha vmunix: DDR: WARNING: Basic Defaults will be used.
>
> and what a few messages in the archives are referring to.
>
> The way to get rid of that seems to be unknown - the accociated summaries
> do not have any suggestions but mention that nothing else has been noticed
> as going wrong. Now I'm slightly perplexed because having a problem with my
> tape device and searching the solution to it, I have to try some things with
> this database, and I must be sure that the base is OK. "Basic Defaults will
> be used" doesn't satisfy me at the moment.
>
> So, what permissions and ownership must be installed on these files and
> what new information is there on this inconsistency?
>
> Thanks,
> Irene
Received on Thu Nov 04 1999 - 06:12:40 NZDT