Re: Lost tbconfig file

Posted in 1999

Eric_Melillo@agsea.com — Wed, 24 Mar 1999 05:59:47 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

tbcheck -pr This will read the reserved pages mentioned below, and give you what you need to get things going... Redirect the output to a file and format to the way you want... Eric P. Melillo Sr. Database Administrator Associated Grocers, Inc. 3301 South Norfolk Seattle, WA 98118 vmail: (206) 767-8178 email: eric_melillo@agsea.com "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> on 03/24/99 05:25:17 AM To: zeljan@laus.hr, obnoxio@hotmail.com cc: informix-list@iiug.org (bcc: Eric Melillo/AGInc) Subject: Re: Lost tbconfig file >Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > >> >my customer is using AIX 3.2.5 and Informix 5.0?. He installed informix >> >software in /usr file system. Yesterday /usr become 100% full, and >> after >> >that his tbconfig file is empty. Informix is running fine without >> >tbconfig file. >> >I know it is possible to get configuration parameters from shared >> memory >> >in Informix 7, but I don't know is it possible with Informix 5. >> >> tbstat -c >> >> should do the trick. > >I have try it but tbstat -c only read tbconfig file which is empty. Hmmm, I thought it read the config from the root dbspace. Well, the config info is kept (I think) in the first page of the rootdbs. So maybe you can dd that and work it out. Sounds like a prize winner. Nothing else springs to mind, perhaps someone more sensible can help. Sorry. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com