RE: Why does it still think the LTAPEDEV is nul?

I did used ONMONITOR to change the LTAPEDEV parameter. However, it's only work for changing the parameter from /dev/null to device BUT NOT from device back to /dev/null. WHY? -----Original Message----- From: Art S. Kagel [mailto:kagel@bloomberg.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 8:54 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Why does it still think the LTAPEDEV is nul? OK, definitive answer. Since the engine has to check the value of LTAPEDEV every time a logical log fills it ONLY looks at the copy in shared memory that is created at engine startup. This is different from the TAPEDEV parameter which is ONLY read from the ONCONFIG file. If you only changed the value in the ONCONFIG file the engine AND ontape will not know about the change until you shutdown and restart the engine. On UNIX you can use the ONMONITOR utility to change the value of LTAPEDEV on disk and onmonitor will ALSO change the in-memory version of that parameter so that the change takes effect immediately. On NT there IS not onmonitor utility so you are out-of-luck and have to shutdown and restart the engine. Art S. Kagel Impy wrote: > > In article <8tjdbc$9cm$07$1@news.t-online.com>, > "Erik Stahlhut" <isr-est@t-online.de> wrote: > > Please check the entries in the reserved pages with oncheck -cr. If > there's > > a difference between the onconfig-file and the r.-pages you must > reboot the > > server. > > > > Regards > > Erik Stahlhut > Thanks, that helped me figure out what to do (but I had to dig deep to > remember how to stop/start services from a prompt since I am doing this > remotely.) But it still didn't answer my question. > oncheck -pr showed:> ONCONFIG config file error on element TAPEDEV. > Value in reserved page: nul > Value in config file: \\\\.\\TAPE0 > ONCONFIG config file error on element LTAPEDEV. > Value in reserved page: nul > Value in config file: \\\\.\\TAPE2 > Why did this become a problem? > Thanks for any light you can shed on this. > Wynne > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.