Re: onstat -u

In article <3612E041.665A3885@hotmail.com>, june_t@hotmail.com (June Tong) wrote: > David Meyer wrote: > > > I was running an 'onstat -u' command and have been receiving the > > following message: > > > > "changing data structures forced command termination" > > > > I was wondering if any of you have seen this message and might know > > what it means and how to correct it? > > Yup, I've seen it. It means that you have a buggy version of Informix > (7.23.UC4, I think), and also that you have clients whose hostname is > over 8 characters long. Onstat was only prepared for 8 characters worth > of hostname, and longer names caused this error. > > June > -- > june_t@hotmail.com > Lost in the wilds of Palo Alto, living on Peanut M&M's > > > I don't know about a buggy Informix, has there ever been one :-)), but you can get this from a number of sources. It is probably worth digging through cdi archive (www.iiug.org) Paul Watson # I don't suffer from WF Software Ltd. # stress, I'm just Tel. (+44) 1436 674729 # a carrier Fax. (+44) 1436 678693 # www.wfsoftware.co.uk