Re: Unable to bring up informix Server.

Hi My problem was solved. Thanks for all those who responded. Found out that the /etc/nsswitch.conf on on my machine needed services: file nis Troy L. Hewitt wrote: > > Your sqlhosts entry has an error. The services entry should always > be unique for each of the DBSERVERs in your system. > localConn and osp710uluru were the same server. I have DBSERVERNAME osp710uluru DBSERVERALIASES localConn > $INFORMIXDIR/sqlhosts > --------------------- > osp720uluru onsoctcp uluru ospinformix7ud> localConn onipcshm uluru ospinformix7ud <-- Must be unique > > For ipcshm connections, the value doesn't matter other than it > needs to be unique. Change it to localConn as in: > > $INFORMIXDIR/sqlhosts > --------------------- > osp720uluru onsoctcp uluru ospinformix7ud > localConn onipcshm uluru localConn> > Everything should be fine after this. > > Troy