The following sections deal with access issues that can prevent you from starting ABF or Vision.

To use ABF and Vision, connect to a database, unless you use the –nodatabase flag. If you are connecting to a database, the necessary Ingres servers must be running. Use the show option of the iinamu utility to check that you have the appropriate Ingres servers running:

If the appropriate servers are not running, ask the system administrator to start them.

See the System Administrator Guide for more information about the iinamu utility.

ABF or Vision gives a start-up error if it cannot write the output files or temporary files that it requires. To check that you have read and write permissions to the appropriate directories, use the following procedures.

To check that you have defined the ING_ABFDIR logical/ environment variable to a directory for which you have read and write permissions:

Windows: At the operating system prompt, type:

Use the ls -ld command to check that you have read and write permissions for this directory.

If ING_ABFDIR is not defined correctly, contact the system administrator.

ABF and Vision create temporary files in the directory defined by the II_TEMPORARY logical/environment variable, if you have defined it. Otherwise, temporary files are created in your current working directory. Use the following procedure to check that you have permissions to create temporary files:

At the operating system prompt, type:

At the operating system prompt, type each of the following commands as necessary, until you see the name of a valid directory:

Use the ls -ld command to check that you have read and write permissions for this directory.