Re: Installing Informix Online (Solaris 2.5.1)

Jason C Miller wrote: > > Whenever I install informix i get the following error in the online.log: > 12:28:01 mt_shm_init: can't create virtual segment> > Doing it a second time after setting some variables added some more errors: > 14:09:00 shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52644801: shared memory already exists > 14:09:00 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment> > From what I've been told by a number of people, I need to make kernel > modifications to the Solaris 2.5.1 machine to those recommended by > Informix. > > Question is, under a out-of-the-box system, which changes do I need to > make and how do I got about making them? Any advice would be helpful and > appreciated. > I'm not exactly a proficient sysadmin for Solaris and we're not sure > we'll use Informix yet so it isn't worth big problems if that is what > I'm going to face. > > Thanks, > Jason > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > |\\\\| Jason Miller |//| jm@andrew.cmu.edu VOX 412/862-3576 > |//| Information Systems & Comp Sci |\\\\| jason@halotech.com BIZ 412/361-HALO > |\\\\| Carnegie Mellon University |//| FAX 412/361-8399 > In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we > understand, we will understand only what we are taught. Set IPC parameters in /etc/system file that is recommended by Informix in their $INFORMIXDIR/release/ONLINE_whatever and reboot the system Hope this helps. -- ======================================================================= Boris Niyazov Ph: 212-854-4094 IT Department Fax: 212-316-2623 Columbia Law School Email: ban5@columbia.edu