Re: Help! oninit -i Warning message!!! System Down!!!

Sham Vaidya wrote in message <34DDAB38.7B0D98DA@hotmail.com>... >I am not sure if this got posted earlier. Please excuse the redundancy >if it did. > >I am running Informix 7.23 on a sun SPARC 1000 > >We decided to upgrade from cooked files to raw devices for performance >reasons and we now run into the problem where onmonitor displays >a message "WARNING: Network Down". > >During the intialization process on tailing the log files I see the >following >messages > >1) Unable to increase file size limits, need to be super-user (this >error >I get if I run oninit -i as informix or root >2) A few informative messages >3) Building the sysmaster tables >4) Sysmaster tables built successfully >5) Checkpoint completed > >I am able to create the stores databsae in the root dbspace and perform >selects, inserts etc. My root dbspace chunk is in a raw device. The >LVM shows the status up and running. > >However when I go to add a dbspace/chunk it gives me an error in >onmonitor >saying it cannot locate the raw device soft link. (I have the >permissions >set fine to 660 and owner/group as informix). Exiting the screen it >mentions a network error. None of the sqlhosts, /etc/services or the >/etc/hosts files have changed. When I do go into onmonitor I see an >error in the log file pop up saying >-951 User informix is not known.....however in the sysmaster DB >in the sysusers database there is an entry for informix... > >Any ideas? Any help appreciated. Please send me an email directly >or reply to the newsgroup. > >Thanks in advance. > >Sham Vaidya >smvaidya@hotmail.com > > Once I've experience a -951 error at the same time as a network error using ONMONITOR. Later, we found that there was a problem with our DNS service: the system was validating the informix user on another machine! I'm not sure the errors are the same (or due to the same problems) because we are using NT. Good luck! Joao Carvalho joao_s_carvalho@hotmail.com