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Sorry, I can log into the server -- I just can't log into the database. In fact I can log into the Unix server with the informix login and password. Then I run dbaccess and try to connect to the database ol_nisbc. Then when I try to connect with the informix login and password (this is the only one I know) it gives the following error: The INFORMIXSERVER value is not listed in the sqlhost file or the Reg I appreciate you help and look forward to hearing your advice! Eric ets3@email.byu.edu

Eric Shipek wrote: > > Sorry, I can log into the server -- I just can't log into the database. In > fact I can log into the Unix server with the informix login and password. > Then I run dbaccess and try to connect to the database ol_nisbc. Then when > I try to connect with the informix login and password (this is the only one > I know) it gives the following error: > > The INFORMIXSERVER value is not listed in the sqlhost file or the Reg AHAH! Now it all comes out. ;-) The login and password are, as you tried, the same as the UNIX login and password. That is not the problem. Either the sqlhosts file has been damaged or is missing, the INFORMIXSERVER environment variable is not properly set, or the sqlhosts file has a non-default name or location in which case there are environment variables which need to be set to direct dbaccess to the sqlhosts file (INFORMIXSQLHOSTS contains the path to the file if different from the default of $INFORMIXDIR/etc and SQLHOSTS the filename if not 'sqlhosts'). Just as the error message says. Check the file $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts, $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$SQLHOSTS, $INFORMIXSQLHOSTS/sqlhosts, or $INFORMIXSQLHOSTS/$SQLHOSTS and see if there is an entry for the server named in $INFORMIXSERVER. Art S. Kagel

I don't know how to fix this stuff so I'm posting the results of reading the files listed in previous posts in hopes that the problem will become visable: I really appreciate you taking time to read through this: Results of printenv: HOME=/home/erics PATH=.:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/informix/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin LOGNAME=erics HZ=100 TERM=vt220 TZ=US/Mountain SHELL=/usr/local/bin/tcsh MAIL=/var/mail/erics LC_COLLATE=en_US LC_CTYPE=en_US LC_MESSAGES=C LC_MONETARY=en_US LC_NUMERIC=en_US LC_TIME=en_US HOSTTYPE=sun4 VENDOR=sun OSTYPE=solaris MACHTYPE=sparc SHLVL=1 PWD=/usr/informix USER=erics GROUP=www HOST=perrin.nisbc.com REMOTEHOST=bdsl80.slkc.uswest.net INFORMIXDIR=/usr/informix INFORMIXSERVER=ol_nisbc_dev ONCONFIG=onconfig.ifmx INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=/usr/informix/etc/sqlhosts.ifmx INFORMIXTERM=terminfo Results of cat /usr/informix/sqlhosts: #************************************************************************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # #************************************************************************** demo_on onipcshm on_hostname on_servernamedemo_se seipcpip se_hostname sqlexec Results of cat /usr/informix/sqlhosts.ifmx #************************************************************************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # #************************************************************************** ol_nisbc ontlitcp perrin ifmx_srvc Results for cat /usr/informix/onconfig.ifmx #************************************************************************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # # Title: onconfig.std # Description: INFORMIX-OnLine Configuration Parameters # #************************************************************************** # Root Dbspace Configuration ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace nameROOTPATH /usr/informix/dbspace/rootdbs # Path for device containing root dbspace ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) ROOTSIZE 40000 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes) # Disk Mirroring Configuration Parameters MIRROR 0 # Mirroring flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) MIRRORPATH # Path for device containing mirrored root MIRROROFFSET 0 # Offset into mirrored device (Kbytes) # Physical Log Configuration PHYSDBS rootdbs # Location (dbspace) of physical log PHYSFILE 1000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes) # Logical Log Configuration LOGFILES 6 # Number of logical log files LOGSIZE 500 # Logical log size (Kbytes) # Diagnostics MSGPATH /usr/informix/online.log # System message log file path CONSOLE /dev/null # System null message pathALARMPROGRAM /usr/informix/log_full.sh # Alarm program path # System Archive Tape Device TAPEDEV /dev/null # Tape device path TAPEBLK 16 # Tape block size (Kbytes) TAPESIZE 10240 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes) # Log Archive Tape Device LTAPEDEV /dev/null # Log tape device path LTAPEBLK 16 # Log tape block size (Kbytes) LTAPESIZE 10240 # Max amount of data to put on log tape (Kbytes) # Optical STAGEBLOB # INFORMIX-OnLine/Optical staging area # System Configuration SERVERNUM 14 # Unique id corresponding to a OnLine instance DBSERVERNAME ol_nisbc # Name of default database server DBSERVERALIASES # List of alternate dbservernames NETTYPE # Configure poll thread(s) for nettype DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT 60 # Max time to wait of lock in distributed env. RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) MULTIPROCESSOR 0 # 0 for single-processor, 1 formulti-processor NUMCPUVPS 1 # Number of user (cpu) vps SINGLE_CPU_VP 0 # If non-zero, limit number of cpu vps toone NOAGE 0 # Process aging AFF_SPROC 0 # Affinity start processor AFF_NPROCS 0 # Affinity number of processors # Shared Memory Parameters LOCKS 2000 # Maximum number of locks BUFFERS 200 # Maximum number of shared buffers NUMAIOVPS # Number of IO vps PHYSBUFF 32 # Physical log buffer size (Kbytes) LOGBUFF 32 # Logical log buffer size (Kbytes)LOGSMAX 6 # Maximum number of logical log files CLEANERS 1 # Number of buffer cleaner processes SHMBASE 0x0A000000L # Shared memory base address SHMVIRTSIZE 8000 # initial virtual shared memory segment size SHMADD 8192 # Size of new shared memory segments (Kbytes) SHMTOTAL 0 # Total shared memory (Kbytes). 0=>unlimited CKPTINTVL 300 # Check point interval (in sec) LRUS 8 # Number of LRU queues LRU_MAX_DIRTY 60 # LRU percent dirty begin cleaning limit LRU_MIN_DIRTY 50 # LRU percent dirty end cleaning limit LTXHWM 50 # Long transaction high water mark percentage LTXEHWM 60 # Long transaction high water mark (exclusive) TXTIMEOUT 300 # Transaction timeout (in sec) STACKSIZE 32 # Stack size (Kbytes) # System Page Size # BUFFSIZE - OnLine no longer supports this configuration parameter. # To determine the page size used by OnLine on your platform # see the last line of output from the command, 'onstat -b'. # Recovery Variables # OFF_RECVRY_THREADS: # Number of parallel worker threads during fast recovery or an offline restore. # ON_RECVRY_THREADS: # Number of parallel worker threads during an online restore. OFF_RECVRY_THREADS 10 # Default number of offline worker threads ON_RECVRY_THREADS 1 # Default number of online worker threads # Data Replication Variables # DRAUTO: 0 manual, 1 retain type, 2 reverse type DRAUTO 0 # DR automatic switchover DRINTERVAL 30 # DR max time between DR buffer flushes (in sec) DRTIMEOUT 30 # DR network timeout (in sec) DRLOSTFOUND /tmp # DR lost+found file path # CDR Variables CDR_LOGBUFFERS 2048 # size of log reading buffer pool (Kbytes) CDR_EVALTHREADS 1,2 # evaluator threads (per-cpu-vp,additional) CDR_DSLOCKWAIT 5 # DS lockwait timeout (seconds) CDR_QUEUEMEM 4096 # Maximum amount of memory for any CDR queue (Kbytes) # Backup/Restore variables BAR_ACT_LOG /tmp/bar_act.log BAR_MAX_BACKUP 0 BAR_RETRY 1 BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT 10 BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZE 31 # Read Ahead Variables RA_PAGES # Number of pages to attempt to read ahead RA_THRESHOLD # Number of pages left before next group # DBSPACETEMP: # OnLine equivalent of DBTEMP for SE. This is the list of dbspaces # that the OnLine SQL Engine will use to create temp tables etc. # If specified it must be a colon separated list of dbspaces that exist # when the OnLine system is brought online. If not specified, or if # all dbspaces specified are invalid, various ad hoc queries will create # temporary files in /tmp instead. DBSPACETEMP # Default temp dbspaces # DUMP*: # The following parameters control the type of diagnostics information which # is preserved when an unanticipated error condition (assertion failure)@

OK, all is well now. Part of the problem was that I didn't know where to change the environmental variables so that they would be correct after a reboot. The problem was solved by changing the INFORMIXSERVER value in the .tcshrc file. Thanks for putting up with me =) Eric ets3@email.byu.edu Eric Shipek <ets3@email.byu.edu> wrote in message news:6bve3.226$3s.34732@news.uswest.net... > I don't know how to fix this stuff so I'm posting the results of reading the > files listed in previous posts in hopes that the problem will become > visable: > > I really appreciate you taking time to read through this: > > Results of printenv: > > > HOME=/home/erics > PATH=.:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/informix/bin:/bin:/usr/bin> :/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > LOGNAME=erics > HZ=100 > TERM=vt220 > TZ=US/Mountain > SHELL=/usr/local/bin/tcsh > MAIL=/var/mail/erics > LC_COLLATE=en_US > LC_CTYPE=en_US > LC_MESSAGES=C > LC_MONETARY=en_US > LC_NUMERIC=en_US > LC_TIME=en_US > HOSTTYPE=sun4 > VENDOR=sun > OSTYPE=solaris > MACHTYPE=sparc > SHLVL=1 > PWD=/usr/informix > USER=erics > GROUP=www > HOST=perrin.nisbc.com > REMOTEHOST=bdsl80.slkc.uswest.net > INFORMIXDIR=/usr/informix > INFORMIXSERVER=ol_nisbc_dev > ONCONFIG=onconfig.ifmx > INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=/usr/informix/etc/sqlhosts.ifmx > INFORMIXTERM=terminfo> > > Results of cat /usr/informix/sqlhosts: > > #************************************************************************** > # > # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. > # > #************************************************************************** > > demo_on onipcshm on_hostname on_servername> demo_se seipcpip se_hostname sqlexec > > > Results of cat /usr/informix/sqlhosts.ifmx > > > #************************************************************************** > # > # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. > # > #************************************************************************** > > ol_nisbc ontlitcp perrin ifmx_srvc> > > Results for cat /usr/informix/onconfig.ifmx > > #************************************************************************** > # > # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. > # > # Title: onconfig.std > # Description: INFORMIX-OnLine Configuration Parameters > # > #************************************************************************** > > # Root Dbspace Configuration > > ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace name> ROOTPATH /usr/informix/dbspace/rootdbs # Path for device containing root > dbspace > ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) > ROOTSIZE 40000 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes)> > # Disk Mirroring Configuration Parameters > > MIRROR 0 # Mirroring flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) > MIRRORPATH # Path for device containing mirrored root > MIRROROFFSET 0 # Offset into mirrored device (Kbytes)> > # Physical Log Configuration > > PHYSDBS rootdbs # Location (dbspace) of physical log > PHYSFILE 1000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes)> > # Logical Log Configuration > > LOGFILES 6 # Number of logical log files > LOGSIZE 500 # Logical log size (Kbytes)> > # Diagnostics > > MSGPATH /usr/informix/online.log # System message log file path > CONSOLE /dev/null # System null message path> ALARMPROGRAM /usr/informix/log_full.sh # Alarm program path > > # System Archive Tape Device > > TAPEDEV /dev/null # Tape device path > TAPEBLK 16 # Tape block size (Kbytes) > TAPESIZE 10240 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes)> > # Log Archive Tape Device > > LTAPEDEV /dev/null # Log tape device path > LTAPEBLK 16 # Log tape block size (Kbytes) > LTAPESIZE 10240 # Max amount of data to put on log tape (Kbytes)> > # Optical > > STAGEBLOB # INFORMIX-OnLine/Optical staging area > > # System Configuration > > SERVERNUM 14 # Unique id corresponding to a OnLine instance > DBSERVERNAME ol_nisbc # Name of default database server > DBSERVERALIASES # List of alternate dbservernames > NETTYPE # Configure poll thread(s) for nettype > DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT 60 # Max time to wait of lock in distributed env. > RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) > > MULTIPROCESSOR 0 # 0 for single-processor, 1 for> multi-processor > NUMCPUVPS 1 # Number of user (cpu) vps > SINGLE_CPU_VP 0 # If non-zero, limit number of cpu vps to> one > > NOAGE 0 # Process aging > AFF_SPROC 0 # Affinity start processor > AFF_NPROCS 0 # Affinity number of processors> > # Shared Memory Parameters > > LOCKS 2000 # Maximum number of locks > BUFFERS 200 # Maximum number of shared buffers > NUMAIOVPS # Number of IO vps > PHYSBUFF 32 # Physical log buffer size (Kbytes) > LOGBUFF 32 # Logical log buffer size (Kbytes)> LOGSMAX 6 # Maximum number of logical log files > CLEANERS 1 # Number of buffer cleaner processes > SHMBASE 0x0A000000L # Shared memory base address > SHMVIRTSIZE 8000 # initial virtual shared memory segment size > SHMADD 8192 # Size of new shared memory segments > (Kbytes) > SHMTOTAL 0 # Total shared memory (Kbytes). 0=>unlimited > CKPTINTVL 300 # Check point interval (in sec) > LRUS 8 # Number of LRU queues > LRU_MAX_DIRTY 60 # LRU percent dirty begin cleaning limit > LRU_MIN_DIRTY 50 # LRU percent dirty end cleaning limit > LTXHWM 50 # Long transaction high water mark percentage > LTXEHWM 60 # Long transaction high water mark (exclusive) > TXTIMEOUT 300 # Transaction timeout (in sec) > STACKSIZE 32 # Stack size (Kbytes)> > # System Page Size > # BUFFSIZE - OnLine no longer supports this configuration parameter. > # To determine the page size used by OnLine on your platform > # see the last line of output from the command, 'onstat -b'. > > > # Recovery Variables > # OFF_RECVRY_THREADS: > # Number of parallel worker threads during fast recovery or an offline > restore. > # ON_RECVRY_THREADS: > # Number of parallel worker threads during an online restore. > > OFF_RECVRY_THREADS 10 # Default number of offline worker threads > ON_RECVRY_THREADS 1 # Default number of online worker threads> > # Data Replication Variables > # DRAUTO: 0 manual, 1 retain type, 2 reverse type > DRAUTO 0 # DR automatic switchover > DRINTERVAL 30 # DR max time between DR buffer flushes (in sec) > DRTIMEOUT 30 # DR network timeout (in sec) > DRLOSTFOUND /tmp # DR lost+found file path> > # CDR Variables > CDR_LOGBUFFERS 2048 # size of log reading buffer pool (Kbytes) > CDR_EVALTHREADS 1,2 # evaluator threads (per-cpu-vp,additional) > CDR_DSLOCKWAIT 5 # DS lockwait timeout (seconds) > CDR_QUEUEMEM 4096 # Maximum amount of memory for any CDR queue > (Kbytes)> > # Backup/Restore variables > BAR_ACT_LOG /tmp/bar_act.log > BAR_MAX_BACKUP 0 > BAR_RETRY 1> BA

Dear All, Everything is working great now as said before. I just wanted to add a comment about newsgroups in general as I participte in newsgroups ranging from MCSE certifications to LiveWire and now to informix. I'm SO GRATEFUL that professionals are willing to help each other with this profession. It's one of the things that I enjoy most about my work. I hope that nobody takes the help given in these newsgroups for granted and I look forward to the day that I can be the one giving answers and helping others out =) I'm still receiving email on how to fix this problem even after it is fixed! You guys are great!!! Eric ets3@email.byu.edu