Re: What happens if I install a local client after server software

Posted in 1998

The Wilcoxons — Sun, 12 Jul 1998 10:57:59 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Knut Behrends wrote in message <35A5D628.983E0286@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>... >Hello, > >Informix writes in the universal server manuals something like this: > >you must install Informix Clients before you install universal server. > >What happens if I install a local client *after* server software? Is >there anything overwritten or damaged, does the server software get >messed up? You may end up running the wrong version of a shared library (slim chance) and you coud easily end up wth the wrong version of your error message file. It all depends on which versions of S/W you are mixing. There could be other side affects as well. S.W.