- Changing Access Rights for PROIV Executables

At installation, PROIV files are moved from the installation directory to their destination directories by the shell script 'relocate'. Access rights are not changed by 'relocate'. If the default access rights are not suitable for the current environment, relocate can be edited to change the access rights, before the files are moved. Alternatively, the access rights of the files can be changed with the files in their final location.

An indication that the access rights are incorrect is the following message:

Core dump
File Catalog Corrupt

If this message appears, check that the access rights of the following PROIV files are minimally equivalent to the following:

File	Owner	Group	Access Rights
/usr/bin/pro	bin	bin	rwxr-xr-x
/usr/bin/is. (Except iscollect)..	bin	bin	rwxr-xr-x
/usr/bin/iscollect	root	bin	rwsr-xr-x
/etc/isamdef	bin	bin	r--r--r--
/etc/pro4v[n].ini	root	bin	r--r--r--
/etc/prousers.pro	bin	bin	rw-rw-rw-

Minimum PROIV File Access Rights

Entries of '-' in the Access Rights column mean no access of that type.

Example:

'/etc/isamdef' might have '-rwxr-xr-x'

The access rights can be checked using the command:

ls -ali /usr/bin/pro /usr/bin/is* /etc/isamdef

and changed with:

chgrp bin /usr/bin/iscollect     to change the group (to bin)
chown root /usr/bin/iscollect    to change the owner (to root)
chmod a=rx /usr/bin/pro   to change the access
chmod u+s /usr/bin/iscollect     to set the 'set uid' access

The '.pro' files would normally have 'rw-rw-rw-' access but this can be restricted if required.

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