Adding Informix services

You must define the service of the database server.

About this task

Before creating a database server, you must define the service of the database server in the /etc/services file or its NIS equivalent (for more information, see Services, routing, passwords, groups, and hosts).

Procedure

You must edit the services file as user root.

The services entry for the database server has the following syntax:

servername_serverhostname informix_port/tcp  # comment

The first column is the Informix® database server service name. The second column starts with the Informix service port number.


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