Help! oninit -i Warning message!!! System Down!!!

I am not sure if this got posted earlier. Please excuse the redundancy if it did. I am running Informix 7.23 on a sun SPARC 1000 We decided to upgrade from cooked files to raw devices for performance reasons and we now run into the problem where onmonitor displays a message "WARNING: Network Down". During the intialization process on tailing the log files I see the following messages 1) Unable to increase file size limits, need to be super-user (this error I get if I run oninit -i as informix or root 2) A few informative messages 3) Building the sysmaster tables 4) Sysmaster tables built successfully 5) Checkpoint completed I am able to create the stores databsae in the root dbspace and perform selects, inserts etc. My root dbspace chunk is in a raw device. The LVM shows the status up and running. However when I go to add a dbspace/chunk it gives me an error in onmonitor saying it cannot locate the raw device soft link. (I have the permissions set fine to 660 and owner/group as informix). Exiting the screen it mentions a network error. None of the sqlhosts, /etc/services or the /etc/hosts files have changed. When I do go into onmonitor I see an error in the log file pop up saying -951 User informix is not known.....however in the sysmaster DB in the sysusers database there is an entry for informix... Any ideas? Any help appreciated. Please send me an email directly or reply to the newsgroup. Thanks in advance. Sham Vaidya smvaidya@hotmail.com