RE: Thanks for REs my urgent call

One more thing you might want to consider adding to your morals... We had someone accidentally type oninit -i here as well, and so I instituted the following: We have a local/bin directory which I have put in /etc/PATH so that it comes first in everyone's path. Within that directory I have written = an executable shell script called oninit. Therefore when someone uses oninit they are using my script, not Informix's. It simply searches = for the -i option, and if found, it sends out an error message and exits. If it does not see a -i, it calls $INFORMIXDIR/bin/oninit with all of the arguments. Actually I use this structure for a lot of things that I monitor, and = it is transparent to the users. -----Original Message----- From: Arturo Rodr=EDguez Mutis [SMTP:melexa@colomsat.net.co] Posted At: Friday, February 19, 1999 2:46 PM Posted To: Informix Conversation: Thanks for REs my urgent call Subject: Thanks for REs my urgent call Hi all, I would like to thank you for answering my call. Specially to Jonathan Leffler for his speedy answer and to Scott Black for his brilliant exposition on how to revive an informix erased database. Welcome [clipped] My morals: 1. Never allow super users on the modem (you don't know what they type and you can't stop them). 2. As a super user: never type without knowing what are you typing. 3. Backups level 0 are a must, but also you have to use level 1 and 2. 4. You own the database, you type the commands. 5. Expert eyes are always better than expert ears. 6. Crash restoring is not as terrible as it sounds. A final question: Why the database initialization command is the same startup one? Informix should make two different commands for that. Is not hard and it's useful (at least safer). bye... -- Arturo Rodr=EDguez Mutis Director de Inform=E1tica Melexa Ltda. PBX (571) 360 3055 FAX (571) 360 2562 e-mail melexa@colomsat.net.co