Hello,
I have a problem with starting IDS..

after oninit -v in the trerminal I have the following messages:

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# oninit -v
Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded
Reading configuration file '/opt/informix-9.21/etc/onconfig'...succeeded
Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... succeeded
Creating infos file "/opt/informix-9.21/etc/.infos.rh_shm" ... "/opt/informix-9.21/etc/.conf.rh_shm" ... succeeded
Writing to infos file ... succeeded
Checking config parameters...succeeded
Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded
Creating resident pool 13214 kbytes...succeeded
Creating buffer pool 64002 kbytes...succeeded
Initializing rhead structure...succeeded
Initializing ASF ...succeeded
Initializing Dictionary Cache and SPL Routine Cache...succeeded
Bringing up ADM VP...succeeded
Creating VP classes...succeeded
Onlining 0 additional cpu vps...succeeded
Onlining 2 IO vps...succeeded
Forking main_loop thread...succeeded
Initializing DR structures...succeeded
Forking 1 'ipcshm' listener threads...succeeded
Forking 1 'soctcp' listener threads...succeeded
Forking 0 'soctcp' listener threads...#
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and on the on the online.log file few last lines are

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18:54:57 Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Started.

Mon Oct 25 18:54:58 2004

18:54:58 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/opt/informix-9.21/etc/log_full.sh'
18:54:58 Booting Language <c> from module <>
18:54:58 Loading Module <CNULL>
18:54:58 Booting Language <builtin> from module <>
18:54:58 Loading Module <BUILTINNULL>
18:55:04 listener-thread: err = -25572: oserr = 98: errstr = : Network driver cannot bind a name to the port.
System error = 98.
18:55:04 Attempting to bring listener thread down.

18:55:04 Server stopped.
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when I try to do
onstat -command, I have a error on the terminal:
shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'rh_shm'

How can I initialize the shared memory?


the sqlhosts file consist of the lines:

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rh_soc onsoctcp redhat infx_soc
rh_shm onipcshm redhat infx_shm
rh20_soc onsoctcp 192.168.20.11 infx_soc
node_soc olsoctcp dbgate 1427
gate2pub_soc onsoctcp 192.168.2.2 1427
db1pub_soc onsoctcp 192.168.2.3 1427
dblinux_soc onsoctcp 192.168.1.12 infx_soc
ol_pit olsoctcp 192.168.1.74 1526
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and in the onconfig file are the variables:

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# System Configuration

SERVERNUM 1 # Unique id corresponding to a OnLine instance
DBSERVERNAME rh_shm # Name of default database server
DBSERVERALIASES rh_soc,rh20_soc # List of alternate dbservernames
NETTYPE soctcp,1,100,NET # Configure poll thread(s) for nettype
NETTYPE ipcshm,1,100,CPU # 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)

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Please
help me,
how can I start the server normally?

And another question. As I understand, afther all of these, the server not started, but when I try to connect to the server 'rh_soc' from my windows machine from eSQL application (as I understand throught ODBC driver), the connection is OK and I can work with this databases. Why?