RE: Oninit -i

Do you have the environment variable INFORMIXDIR set properly. If not, oninit is unable to find the message files to tell you what is going on... Will Note 1: Informix is installed in /infx/informix, not /home/informix Note 2: informix is already running on this box so oninit is failing for that reason not do to misconfiguration. Example of proper INFORMIXDIR: -- <informix>:/home/informix $ echo $INFORMIXDIR /infx/informix <informix>:/home/informix $ oninit -v Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Reading configuration file '/infx/informix/etc/onconfig.tclms1.p'...succeeded Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... succeeded Creating infos file "/infx/informix/etc/.infos.sys1_shm" ... "/infx/informix/etc /.conf.sys1_shm" ... succeeded Writing to infos file ... succeeded Checking config parameters...succeeded Allocating and attaching to shared memory...FAILED oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation -- Example of incorrect INFORMIXDIR: -- <informix>:/home/informix $ export INFORMIXDIR=/home/informix <informix>:/home/informix $ oninit -v Message 35593 not found. succeeded Message 35541 not found. Message 1502 not found. FAILED -- >===== Original Message From "Doug Agnew" <dagnew@charlottepipe.com> ===== >It is probably asking for a 'y/n' response to 'DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU >ARE DOING, WIPING OUT MY PRECIOUS ROOTDBS????'. > >Have no idea where your messages are. > >You can use oninit -iy to force a 'y' response to all questions. > >HTH, >Doug > ><mdelerme@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8hm39i$bra$1@nnrp1.deja.com... >> I have installed IDS 9.2 on my Red Hat Linux box and have just finished >> creating my rootdbs. I am logged in as user informix and all permissions >> seem to be fine. When I try to run oninit -i to initialize rootdbs, I >> get the following: >> >> Message 1515 not found. >> Message 1640 not found. >> <hangs there, so I hit enter> >> Message 1642 not found. >> Message 1640 not found. >> <hangs there, so I hit enter> >> Message 1642 not found. >> Message 1640 not found. >> <type exit> >> Message 1502 not found. >> (back to prompt) >> >> What am I missing? >> Thanks. >> >> Marco >> >> >> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >> Before you buy. ------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit us at http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free e-mail account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------