Re: eventalarm says "Could not recreate lock file. /n" under RH7.3 and Informix 7.31.UD2

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:28:46 -0400, Anthony Presley wrote: Eventalarm.c opens the lock file in the current directory where the engine as started up. Does your startup script cd to an Informix writeable directory? Otherwise the engine was started in root (/) and that may be the problem. Art S. Kagel > This one is stumping me .... > > I'm using Art's eventalarm script (thanks!) from utils3 to do my ontape > switching automagically. However, after each log archival event ("Severity=2, > Class=23") I get the following output in eventalarm.log: > > Oct 01 13:48:11 :NonFatal Event: Severity=2, Class=23. Oct 01 13:48:11 :5 args > passed > Oct 01 13:48:11 :Arg 0: "/opt/informix/etc/eventalarm". Oct 01 13:48:11 :Arg > 1: "2". > Oct 01 13:48:11 :Arg 2: "23". > Oct 01 13:48:11 :Arg 3: "Logical Log 2932 Complete.". Oct 01 13:48:11 :Arg 4: > "Logical Log 2932 Complete.". Oct 01 13:48:11 :Removing old lock file. Oct 01 > 13:48:11 :Could not recreate lock file. /n > > I assumed this was a permissions problem (after looking at the eventalarm.c > code), and have the following permissions in /opt/informix/bin: > > -rwsr-sr-- 1 root informix 5823718 May 11 2002 oninit -rwsr-sr-x 1 > root informix 1194954 May 11 2002 ontape > > Informix is: > > drwxr-xr-x 21 informix informix 4096 Oct 1 13:27 informix > > and informix/ is: > > drwxrwx--- 2 informix informix 4096 May 11 2002 aaodir drwxrwxr-x 2 > informix informix 4096 Jan 29 2003 backup drwxrwxr-x 2 informix > informix 4096 Aug 18 11:04 bin drwxrwx--- 2 informix informix 4096 > May 11 2002 dbssodir drwxr-xr-x 9 informix informix 4096 Dec 11 2001 > demo drwxr-xr-x 7 informix informix 4096 Sep 11 2000 doc drwxrwxr-x 8 > informix informix 4096 Sep 29 12:01 etc -rw-r--r-- 1 informix informix > 98 Oct 1 13:27 eventalarm.cfg drwxr-xr-x 8 informix informix 4096 > May 11 2002 forms drwxr-xr-x 5 informix informix 4096 Dec 11 2001 gls > drwxr-xr-x 3 informix informix 4096 May 11 2002 hhelp lrwxrwxrwx 1 > informix informix 5 Jan 27 2003 ifxjdbc -> jdbc2 drwxr-xr-x 8 > informix informix 4096 Dec 11 2001 incl drwxrwxr-x 2 informix informix > 4096 Oct 29 2000 install -rwxr-xr-x 1 informix informix 10013 Dec > 11 2001 installserver drwxr-xr-x 2 informix informix > 4096 May 11 2002 ism drwxrwxr-x 6 informix informix 4096 Mar 31 > 2001 jdbc1 drwxr-xr-x 6 informix informix 4096 Jun 8 2001 jdbc2 > drwxr-xr-x 8 informix informix 4096 May 11 2002 lib drwxr-xr-x 8 > informix informix 4096 May 11 2002 msg drwxr-xr-x 3 informix informix > 4096 Dec 11 2001 release drwxr-xr-x 4 informix informix 4096 May 11 > 2002 snmp > > Next was eventalarm, which is: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 informix informix 30324 May 28 18:30 eventalarm > > <Changing this to root.informix didn't help much> > > I also checked on the logs, which are: > -rw-rw---- 1 informix informix 0 Sep 22 00:03 archive -rw-rw---- 1 > informix informix 952631296 Oct 1 12:33 log > > Which, are, as far as I can tell (I'm probably missing something) correct. > What am I missing? > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > --Anthony