solaris IDS 9.4 wont start after patch install

Hi Folks, After installing patches on a solaris 8 system and trying to start informix. Informix is not able to look up /etc/services file to translate the service name to a port number, so I put the actual port number in the sql hosts file. Then informix would come up. Now it doesn't allow any user to log on as it says.. 12:55:01 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed! 12:55:01 Check for password aging/account lock-out. 12:55:01 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrectpassword or user abc is not known on the database server. System error = 4. 12:55:02 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed! 12:55:02 Check for password aging/account lock-out. 12:55:02 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrectpassword or user abc is not known on the database server. System error = 4. Any pointers would be greatly helpful.... Thanks, Zombie -- zombie

Permissions on /etc/services? -- Neil Truby t:01932 724027 Director m:07798 811708 Ardenta Limited e:neil.truby@ardenta.com "zombie" <zombie_member@newsguy.com> wrote in message news:144496795.00008400.071.0001@drn.newsguy.com... > Hi Folks, > > After installing patches on a solaris 8 system and trying to start > informix. > Informix is not able to look up /etc/services file to translate the > service name > to a port number, so I put the actual port number in the sql hosts file. > Then > informix would come up. > > Now it doesn't allow any user to log on as it says.. > 12:55:01 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed! > 12:55:01 Check for password aging/account lock-out. > 12:55:01 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrect> password or user abc is not known on the database server. > System error = 4. > 12:55:02 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed! > 12:55:02 Check for password aging/account lock-out. > 12:55:02 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrect> password or user abc is not known on the database server. > System error = 4. > > > Any pointers would be greatly helpful.... > > Thanks, > Zombie > > > -- > zombie

>Permissions on /etc/services? > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 23 2004 /etc/services -> ./inet/services -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 3724 Dec 13 11:17 /etc/inet/services -- zombie

Is the entry still in /etc/services? What does netstat -a show for the port Informix is listening on? A port number or service name? I once had a client patch a system and somehow /etc/services was replaced with the default one rather than the one containing my entries.