Re: IDS 7.3 on SCO

Fidelity Soft nv <Fidelity@fidelity-soft.be> wrote: > Hi there!! > > I'm trying to install the Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup edition on a SCO > machine. > The unpacking of the product has succeeded but when executing oninit he > reclams something about the shared memory. > > Has anybody experience in installing Informix on SCO? and if so, can anybody > give me some advice about eventual parameters to check. > Funnily enough I just finished doing this myself this morning - You need to alter the kernel tuning parameters as described in $INFORMIXDIR/release/en_us/0333/IDS*.* . I found the document a little amibiguous but you have to change all of them from SHMMAX to SEMMSL on that first page. These parameters can be altered in /etc/conf/cf.d/stune - if a particular parameter is not in there then you should add it - the keys and values as separated by tabs. You can then install the changes in the kernel with either /etc/conf/cf.d/link_kernel, the idconfig utils or via scoadmin ... it will warn you that the SEM* values are out of the recommended range but ignore that. When you have done this and rebooted your system the IDS will start OK. /J\\ -- "Do you want to go to court today?" - BBC News Website