Re: How to start Informix online at boot time?

Posted in 1998

jparker@epsilon.com — Thu, 19 Mar 1998 12:43:44 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I like Jim Ford's approach - don't. He feels that if hte machine went down for some reason then the odds are that you don't want to bring the engine up blind like that. So any JF machine has a nice shutdown script, but no startup - he does it by hand. cheers j. Neil Truby <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> on 03/18/98 05:22:36 PM Please respond to Neil Truby <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> To: informix-list@iiug.org cc: (bcc: Jack Parker/Boston50/Epsilon) Subject: Re: How to start Informix online at boot time? Jun H. Zhang wrote: > > I created a script under /etc/rc2.d (Unixware 2.1.2) > with the following line > > su - informix -c /home/informix/bin/oninit > > This is not successful, since within the informix > .profile there are some interactions with the > standard input Don't su -, just su, and set the relevant Informix variables, e.g. ONCONFIG, INFORMIXSERVER, in your /etc/rc2.d script, and export them. Neil Truby Chase Manhattan Bank Bournemouth, UK