Re: HELP!! oninit -i fails ... Help

In article <886896140.395378694@dejanews.com>, Sham Vaidya <smvaidya@hotmail.com> writes >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 memory>error, 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. > Check /etc/passwd includes user informix and group informix. Check user informix is in group informix. >Sham Vaidya >smvaidya@hotmail.com > >-------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet -- David Williams Maintainer of the Informix FAQ Primary site (Beta Version) http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk Official site http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html I see you standin', Standin' on your own, It's such a lonely place for you, For you to be If you need a shoulder, Or if you need a friend, I'll be here standing, Until the bitter end... So don't chastise me Or think I, I mean you harm... All I ever wanted Was for you To know that I care