Can't start IDS 7.3 for Linux

Dear Friends : I am trying hard to start Informix IDS 7.3 for Linux. My OS platform is CorelLinux 1.0. After executing "oninit -ivy" command , I got the following messages : ======================================================== Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Reading configuration file '/opt/informix/etc/onconfig'...succeeded Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... FAILED Creating infos file "/opt/informix/etc/.infos.realguide" ... "/opt/informix/etc/.conf.realguide" ... succeeded Writing to infos file ... succeeded Checking config parameters...succeeded Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded Creating resident pool 394 kbytes...succeeded Creating buffer pool 402 kbytes...succeeded Initializing rhead structure...succeeded Initializing ASF ... ======================================================== " Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... FAILED " ----- What does it means ? And then I use "onstat" to check the state , I got : ======================================================== shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'realguide' ======================================================== Could anyone please help me to resolve this problem ? Really thanks !! P.S. Should I show my setting files and environment variables ?? Ken @ Taiwan

Hi! I found one bug in installation guide. Step with "create INFORMIXTMP directory" is missing. You probably didn't create INFORMIXTMP directory. Damijan Ken Hu wrote: > > Dear Friends : > < snip > > Ken @ Taiwan

Damijan Sencar wrote: > > Hi! > > I found one bug in installation guide. Step with "create INFORMIXTMP > directory" is missing. You probably didn't create INFORMIXTMP directory. > > Damijan > > Ken Hu wrote: > > > > Dear Friends : > > > < snip > > > > Ken @ Taiwan What are your permissions on the root directory? I don't remember being required to explicitly create that directory. -- John Carlson Informix DBA WHSmith USA #include std_disclaimer.h /* These are my opinions, not my company's opinion */

Ken Hu wrote: > > Dear Friends : > > I am trying hard to start Informix IDS 7.3 for Linux. > My OS platform is CorelLinux 1.0. > > After executing "oninit -ivy" command , I got the following > messages : > > ======================================================== > Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded > Reading configuration file '/opt/informix/etc/onconfig'...succeeded > Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... FAILED > Creating infos file "/opt/informix/etc/.infos.realguide" ... > "/opt/informix/etc/.conf.realguide" ... succeeded > Writing to infos file ... succeeded > Checking config parameters...succeeded > Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded > Creating resident pool 394 kbytes...succeeded > Creating buffer pool 402 kbytes...succeeded > Initializing rhead structure...succeeded > Initializing ASF ... > ======================================================== > " Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... FAILED " ----- What does it > means ? > > And then I use "onstat" to check the state , I got : > > ======================================================== > shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'realguide' > ======================================================== > > Could anyone please help me to resolve this problem ? Really thanks > !! > > P.S. Should I show my setting files and environment variables ?? If you ran the oninit -ivy as user informix you probably did not have permissions to create the /INFORMIXTMP directory. You can either run the first oninit -ivy as root or create the directory manually as root first. The directory should be owned by root and group informix with permissions: 'chmod 1777 /INFORMIXTMP'. -- Art S. Kagel & Family kagel@erols.com