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Re: Listener Not Started

Posted By: Fernando Nunes
Date: Saturday, 11 October 2014, at 6:04 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Listener Not Started (WAYNE SHEARER)

On Oct 11, 2014 9:43 PM, "WAYNE SHEARER" <wshearer@teledat.com> wrote:
>
> Fernando...you helped, but so far, no cigar.
>
> First thing I found is that there were two listener threads, but there
were
> two reasons they didn't help me...First, they were IPV6 threads. From an
older
> post on this forum (which, btw, YOU wrote..lol) I found that I could force
> Informix to use IPV4 with the env. variable export IFX_DISABLE_IPV6=1.
>
> Got that done and at least the two listeners were now IPV4. But they were
both
> still attached to the localhost, which I assume means the "lo" network
> interface.
>
> My Centos system has a network interface named "enp0s3" and while this
works
> for other functions (telnet, ping, etc.) I'm not sure how to get Informix
to
> start a listener on it. In the /etc/hosts file I have an entry:
>
> "192.158.15.6 teledat-centos"
>
> In the Informix system's onconfig file I have two lines that say:
>
> DBSERVERNAME ol_informix1170
> DBSERVERALIASES dr_informix1170,ol_centos1
>
> The ol_centos1 alias is mine, the other two names are Informix's.
> And in onconfig, I also have two lines:
>
> NETTYPE ipcshm 1,50,CPU
> NETTYPE soctcp 1,4,NET
>
> The first NETTYPE entry was put in by Informix, the second by me.
>
> In the system's sqlhost file I have:
>
> ol_informix1170 onsoctcp localhost.localdomain ol_informix1170
> dr_informix1170 drsoctcp localhost.localdomain dr_informix1170
> ol_centos1 onsoctcp teledat-centos ol_centos1
>
> The ol_centos1 entry is mine, the other two lines were installed by
Informix.
> I have also tried my sqlhosts line as:
>
> ol_centos1 onsoctcp 192.159.15.6 ol_centos1
>
> And, finally, using lsof -i, I have 4 threads listening (now all IPV4)
from
> informix, but there are two from localhost:ol_informix1170 and two from
> localhost:dr_informix1170. None are from my teledat-centos1 alias and all
are
> listed as "localhost".
>
> No matter what I do, I can't seem to get this to listen on the
network...btw,
> just to be clear, I do restart the Informix server between all of these
> changes.
>
> Again, I'd appreciate any help you can give.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne

You should check the online.log (MSGPATH parameter) file for errors.
Also check that your /etc/services file contain an entry for 'ol_centos1'
If it doesn't change that for a port number in the sqlhosts file.

Regards

>
>
>
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Messages In This Thread

• Listener Not Started
  WAYNE SHEARER -- Saturday, 11 October 2014, at 12:53 p.m.
  • Re: Listener Not Started
    Fernando Nunes -- Saturday, 11 October 2014, at 2:22 p.m.
    • Re: Listener Not Started
      WAYNE SHEARER -- Saturday, 11 October 2014, at 4:42 p.m.
      • Re: Listener Not Started
        Fernando Nunes -- Saturday, 11 October 2014, at 6:04 p.m.
        • Re: Listener Not Started
          WAYNE SHEARER -- Saturday, 11 October 2014, at 8:30 p.m.
          • Re: Listener Not Started
            Fernando Nunes -- Sunday, 12 October 2014, at 5:11 p.m.
      • Re: Listener Not Started
        Paul Watson -- Saturday, 11 October 2014, at 6:05 p.m.

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