What userid to drop an informix database as

I'm on a UAT server, logged on as cridv2 In dbaccess drop database option gives error "425 Another user started this database." So I su to root then su to informix I find dbaccess in /user/informix/bin and cd to there ls -l dbaccess -rwxr-xr-x 1 informix informix 472558 Jan26 1996 dbaccess Now however dbaccess gives "dbaccess not found" Is there another userid that informix is started by? TIA< P

On 14 Jul, 14:02, goodolpete <siramicti...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm on a UAT server, logged on as cridv2 > In dbaccess drop database option gives error "425 Another user started > this database." > So I su to root > then su to informix > I find dbaccess in /user/informix/bin and cd to there > ls -l dbaccess > -rwxr-xr-x 1 informix informix 472558 Jan26 1996 dbaccess > > Now however dbaccess gives "dbaccess not found" > > Is there another userid that informix is started by? > TIA< > P > finderr 425 -425 Database is currently opened by another user. Another user has opened the requested database in exclusive mode, or you have more than one connection to the database server. Repeat the statement after a short delay or when the database is known to be idle.

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"goodolpete" <siramictiles@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:31144e33-84fa-42e7-b5ad-831bcdd542dd@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > I'm on a UAT server, logged on as cridv2 > In dbaccess drop database option gives error "425 Another user started > this database." > So I su to root > then su to informix > I find dbaccess in /user/informix/bin and cd to there > ls -l dbaccess > -rwxr-xr-x 1 informix informix 472558 Jan26 1996 dbaccess > > Now however dbaccess gives "dbaccess not found" did you try starting dbaccess with ./dbaccess ? Not every *NIX Installation includes the current directory in your $PATH Variable. Joerg