Re: return codes from onstat

On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Barry Lemrow wrote: > The start script for one of the applications on our system defines the > return codes as follows: > 255 # Informix mode is Down > -1 # Informix mode is Down (60_USAP2) > 0 # Informix mode is Initialization > 1 # Informix mode is Quiescent > 2 # Informix mode is Fast Recovery > 3 # Informix mode is Archive backup > 4 # Informix mode is Shutting Down > 5 # Informix mode is Online > 6 # Informix mode is System Aborting We've found that 2 is also returned in a lot of places for "Something weird happened." For instance, we rcently ran into a situation where a newly restored database (well out of recovery) that appeared perfectly usable was failing its oncheck -cIs. Our app ran, and you could do a full dbexport, but any cI would result in a) the normal output (for a single table only, the whole database just returned the first table) and b) a $? of 2. Odd. I don't recall how we fixed it, but this wasn't the first time we've seen a 2 show up in odd situations. Just my US$0.02 -Richard