IDS 9000 v3 Installation problem

[Wallace C. Chappell]

We have installed IDS v3 on our rp7410 11i system and each time we try and start the schedule we receive these error messages;

idscor: Cannot change nice priority by -10, errno=1:Not owner

idsagent: process (PID:561) idscor died abnormally with error: unknown error and

idsagent: halting schedule execution

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Wallace,
looks to me that the startup is trying to get a better priority, for which root priviledge is required.
Have a look at the config files and documents.
Regards

[Steven E. Protter]

This looks like permissions or perhaps errors at installation time.

I'd recommend re-installation and a careful look at the logs of the installation.

Seems important files that the ids user needs to access are no longer owned by that user.

SEP

[Pierre Pasturel]

Wallace -

The problem should be that /opt/ids/lbin/idscor is not a setuid root program. It should have the following attributes:

-r-sr-x--- 1 root ids idscor

idscor must run with an effective uid of root to change its "nice" value. We have idscor then immediately set its effective uid to user "ids" to avoid running as root.

Were you updating from an earlier version of HIDS? Or did you perform a clean installation? Please supply details so that we can try to reproduce on our end.

Thanks,
Pierre