Multiple residency and oninit -i

I'm trying to inizialize two db istance on a Tandem(Unix), I have two onconfig file and I have changed ONCONFIG and INFORMIXSERVER variable to mach my new db. When I type $oninit -i I receive : This action will initialize INFORMIX-OnLine; any existing INFORMIX-OnLine databases will NOT be accessible - Do you wish to continue (y/n)? In my understand this means that ALL istance will be destroyed, is the message wrong? If it isn't, which is the steps I have to do? Thanks. -- alfano giulio alfanog@tin.it

alfano giulio wrote: > > I'm trying to inizialize two db istance on a Tandem(Unix), I have two > onconfig > file and I have changed ONCONFIG and INFORMIXSERVER variable to mach my > new db. > When I type > $oninit -i > I receive : > > This action will initialize INFORMIX-OnLine; > any existing INFORMIX-OnLine databases will NOT be accessible - > Do you wish to continue (y/n)? > > In my understand this means that ALL istance will be destroyed, is the > message wrong? No. This is just your basic frenzied dire warning to make sure you know what you are doing before you possibly trash your server. As long as the ROOTDBS and/or ROOTOFFS are different in the two ONCONFIG files initializing a new instance cannot trash another one. Art S. Kagel