Re: How many entries are REALLY required (/etc/services)

Not strictly true. Every instance that you need to connect to remotely must have a service, and must be defined in sqlhosts, but shared memory connections only need an entry in sqlhosts. e.g. sqlhosts liveshm onipcshm robin who_cares_1 livesoc onsoctcp robin livesoc evalshm onipcshm robin who_cares_2 evalsoc onsoctcp robin evalsoc itsoc onsoctcp dev itsoc devsoc onsoctcp dev devsoc /etc/services devsoc 1526/tcp sqlexecd itsoc 1527/tcp sqlexecd livesoc 1529/tcp sqlexecd evalsoc 1530/tcp sqlexecd Davin Harvey Informix DBA