Re: Oninit failure

First, please do not post HTML or MIME to this newsgroup it is text only. "Farmer, Byrd G - CFC" wrote: > > We has a disk drive crash on out test server. It has been corrected and > Informix 7.24UC3 has been reinstalled. When we try to bring up the engine > we get the following error messages during the oninit -v > > [048]/export/home/informix/>oninit -v > Reading configuration file > '/usr/informix/7.24.UC3/etc/onconfig.cf'...succeeded > Creating /etc/.infxdirs ... FAILED > Creating infos file "/usr/informix/7.24.UC3/etc/.infos.pcotest" ... > "/usr/inform > ix/7.24.UC3/etc/.conf.pcotest" ... succeeded > Writing to infos file ... succeeded > Checking config parameters...succeeded > Allocating and attaching to shared memory...FAILED > oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation > > Can anyone help explain the "creating /etc/.infxdirs....FAILED" message? > This database was working fine last week. Second: What are the permissions on /etc, on that file if it exists? Third: The file .infxdirs should be created in /INFORMIXTMP not in /etc! I have no idea on that one unless it is a typo or error in the message. So check the permissions on /INFORMIXTMP which should be: drwxrwxr-x root informix Art S. Kagel