Re: How can you tell that ontape is running?

I believe there is a dbamon.sh utility in the IIUG download section that may do what you want. It may require a bit of fine-tuning to do what you want, but it does do some interesting things with both Informix and Unix commands. If you can't find it, let me know and I will post it. Neil Truby wrote: > andy lennard wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I have responsibility for a system that has no full-time DBA and I'd > > like to put together a 'cron-ish' script to check whether the database > > is happy. > > > > I was wondering if anyone can help me find out whether an 'ontape -c' > > is actually doing anything? The system is Sun Solaris 2.6, with 7.23UC4. > You can see if it's clocking up CPU via ps. If it's writing to tape you > can do an mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status and see if it's busy. You can run > onstat -u, identify the ontape from its flags, and have a look to see if> it's clocking up any activity. > > Neil Truby > Chase Manhattan Bank > Bournemouth, UK