Re: Newbie question: Informix SE on Linux

KakukZ wrote: > > Hi! > > Nils Myklebust wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:00:48 +0200, KakukZ <kakukz@meh.hu> wrote: > > > > >"localhost" is just fine in sqlhosts but Linux does not support unnamed pipes > > >so change > > >the sqlhosts file 2nd coloumn from "seipcipc" to "sesoctcp". > > > > We run it with seipcpip just fine. > > Can you tell me how? I'm interested. > > > > > > > > Also make sure > > >that in the 4th coloumn you replace "sqlexec" to "demo_service" (or whatever > > >you want to name it) and add this entry to "/etc/services" with port 1536. > > >Then start sqlexecd with "$INFORMIXDIR/lib/sqlexecd demo_se". > > > > The services name can be anything, including sqlexec, as long as you > > use the same name in the /etc/services file. > > Look at the brackets. They say "(or whatever you want to name it!!!)". I didn't > say that it must be demo_se, BUT using sqlexec is a little bit confusing, because > it is reserved for seipcipc. No it is not. That is just your own convention. Informix does not reserve any ports. You can use any names or port numbers that you want. The convention to use 1526 comes from the ingreslock port, 1524, which has been delivered as part of the default /etc/services file since the dark ages. Even this port is not sacrosanct unless you are running the old University Ingres. We actually use a whole range of ports beginning with 1525 all for TCP/IP, shared memory and pipes pretty much interchangeably. Art S. Kagel