Hi ! I hope someone of you is running Informix Dynamix Server 2000 in SuSE 7.1 ... I don't know why i can't start the server... I don't have problems installing it, the default instalation directory is /opt/informix and the user/groups are already created by default when i installed SuSE. After the instalation i edit /etc/services and add the followin line sqlturbo 50000/tcp #Informix service then i edit .bash_profile from the user informix and i add these lines INFORMIXDIR=/opt/informix INFORMIXSERVER=base PATH=$PATH:$INFORMIXDIR/bin export INFORMIXDIR INFORMIXSERVER PATH then in /opt/informix/etc i create the file sqlhosts and i add #-------------------------------sqlhosts------------------------- base onsoctcp eldaras sqlturbo #----------------------------end sqlhosts---------------------- eldaras is the name of the linux box. then i create /opt/informix/data directory and inside i create a file called rootdb in this way cat /dev/null > rootdb chmod 660 rootdb then i configure the server with onmonitor....i already have a informix server running in redhat 6.2, but i want to start using it on SuSE...(the whole company is running SuSE except this server....) but i can't figure out what is wrong... when i try to execute oninit i says that it can't start the shared memory (i don't remember the exact message.... but this utility isn't too verbose anyway...).. So if someone could help me i would be realy greateful ! Thanks in advance. Augusto.