Re: HELP! My log is gone and I can't get up

Posted in 1996

Richard Freedman — Wed, 3 Jan 1996 01:39:59 LOCAL — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <DJMxpo.vo@cuug.ab.ca> kniver@cuug.ab.ca (Roy Knive) writes: >Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix >Path: news.voicenet.com!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!uunet.ca!news.uunet.ca!cuugnet!kniver >From: kniver@cuug.ab.ca (Roy Knive) >Subject: Re: HELP! My log is gone and I can't get up >Message-ID: <DJMxpo.vo@cuug.ab.ca> >Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 15:58:35 GMT >Distribution: na >References: <DJJ8pw.Fp2@eskimo.com> >Organization: Calgary UNIX User's Group >X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] >Lines: 9 >:crp: (chips@eskimo.com) wrote: >: The transaction log file that the dbms was using got wiped. >: Now when I try to open this SE 4.1 dbms the error messages: >: 224 can not open transaction log file >: 120 ISAM error: can not open log file >: I tried - start database hsms with log in "c:\\hsms\\new" >: and got the same error messages. >: H E L P ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ADVthanksANCE The log file must exist before you can start the database engine. The usual method to create it is cat /dev/null > c:\\hsms\\new\\hsms.log or something equivalent to create the log file as a 0-byte file good luck! -rf Clinitec International, Inc. Horsham PA