My apologies for missing the note about dsm.sys.

Yes, you must have root authority in order to use the shared
memory area. I believe it's an OS restriction (for security
reasons).

 -- TOm

"It's a dog eat dog world,                Thomas A. La Porte
 and I'm wearing milkbone underwear."     DreamWorks SKG
              - Norm Peterson             <tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com>

On Tue, 12 May 1998, Yu Chen wrote:

>yes i did. and that was in my original message.
>
>i also found out, tho' later, was that i wasn't able to connect to server
>as an operator, it complained something like "not enough authority to
>use sharedmem region". but if i issue "dsmadmc" as root all went well.
>interesting. ideas? is this operating system or adsm?
>
>i'm going back to tcpip. maybe it's not efficient for the machine to back
>itself up, but it works. we have a report script kick off every morning
>which i don't want it to run as root.
>
>thanks all.
>
>
>
>yu chen
>
>
>
>-- The Lost Patrol. Level 30~36, HP 800, AC -2. The Highway Patrol of
>   The Random Road, They Keep The Peace, They Eat Donuts.    -TRR '97
>
>
>On Tue, 12 May 1998, Thomas A. La Porte wrote:
>
>** Did you also set your 'COMMmethod' and 'SHMPort' in the dsm.sys
>** file for the client? Changing dsmserv.opt only enables the server
>** for shared memory connections. You must also change your client
>** system options file, in order to specify that you would like to
>** use that particular communication method.
>**
>**  -- Tom
>**
>** "It's a dog eat dog world,                Thomas A. La Porte
>**  and I'm wearing milkbone underwear."     DreamWorks SKG
>**               - Norm Peterson             <tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT 
>com>
>**
>** On Tue, 12 May 1998, Yu Chen wrote:
>**
>** >Howdy,
>** >
>** >some time not before long i remember a thread passed through this list
>** >discussing what would be the optimal communication method to use if a
>** >client and a server co-host on one machine. and the magic word is
>** >"sharedmem". (aix only)
>** >
>** >these are what i put in my dsmserv.opt and dsm.sys file:
>** >COMMmethod         sharedmem
>** >   SHMPORT            1510
>** >
>** >
>** >and this is what i have got:
>** >
>** >$ dsmadmc
>** >ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
>** >Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 2, Release 1, Level 0.6
>** >(C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1996, All Rights Reserved.
>** >
>** >Enter your user id:  admin
>** >ANS5624E Unknown system error.
>** >ANS5519E Unable to establish session with server.
>** >
>** >ANS5103I Highest return code was -450.
>** >
>** >
>** >
>** >
>** >
>** >configuration: we're running our server on an aix4.1.5 box here. port 1510
>** >               is not specified for anything in our /etc/services file.
>** >
>** >
>** >any one care to shed a light on this? ideas, pointers are more than
>** >welcome!! i appriciate your time.
>** >
>** >
>** >
>** >
>** >regards
>** >
>** >
>** >yu chen
>** >
>** >
>** >
>** >
>** >-- The Lost Patrol. Level 30~36, HP 800, AC -2. The Highway Patrol of
>** >   The Random Road, They Keep The Peace, They Eat Donuts.    -TRR '97
>** >
>**
>