HELP!! oninit -i fails ... Help

Hi, I am stumped... any help is really appreciated. I have a situation where we are running Informix OnLine Dynamic Server verison 7.23 on a Sun SPARC 1000. For performance reasons we decided to change from cooked files to raw devices. Currently I am stumped at the following situation and cannot seem to resolve the problem. After performing an "oninit -i" with the original initialization and shared memory parameters without any dbspace except root dbspace and it's chunk, the error I get in onmonitor is "WARNING: Network Down". I tail the log file & it mentions that I am in On-Line mode and the sysmaster databases were created successfully, however as soon as I try and do an onspaces -c to create a dbspace it gives me a shared memoryerror, if I try it from onmonitor it gives me a network error. Another clue (most likely related) is every time I start onmonitor the online.log file that I am tailing generates a -951 error saying user informix is not known to the system. However if I query the sysmaster database on the sysuser table via dbaccess "informix" shows up as a row in the table. (There are 2 rows in the sysusr table). I am able to reach everything in my network and seem to be up and about. However I cannot add any dbspaces.... I am able to create the stores7 database in root dbspace and attach to it via dbaccess and run queries. Another error I get in the online.log is the file limits cannot be changed, must be a super user... Any ideas??? Any info/help appreciated. Please feel free to send an email directly or post on the newsgroup. Thanks in advance. Sham Vaidya smvaidya@hotmail.com -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet