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INFORMIXTMP ?

Posted in 1999

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Platform-Specific Issues, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

Juergen Ritter — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hi, I just installed Informix IDS 7.30UC7 on SuSE Linux 6.2. Everything works fine, but there is on thing that makes me nervous. When 'oninit' is started, the process creates a dirtectory /INFORMIXTMP. Why? What is this directory used for? The problem is, that I don't have very much space on /, so is there any Variable (like INFORMIXDIR) I can set to put this directory somewhere else (eg /opt/informix/tmp). Bye Juergen

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Eugene Nechayev — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hi Juergen, Don't worry about INFORMIXTMP. The directory usually contains few kb an information that Informix uses for its reasons as for the shared memory network communication and stream communication. However you can create a link to any place that you want, before starting oninit ;-) and don't forget to copy all files from the directory to new one. Eugene Nechayev In article <80c0gn$fvk$1@newsreader.gigabell.net>, "Juergen Ritter" <j.ritter@rieker.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Informix IDS 7.30UC7 on SuSE Linux 6.2. Everything works fine, > but there is on thing that makes me nervous. When 'oninit' is started, the > process creates a dirtectory /INFORMIXTMP. Why? What is this directory used for? > The problem is, that I don't have very much space on /, so is there any Variable > (like INFORMIXDIR) I can set to put this directory somewhere else (eg > /opt/informix/tmp). > > Bye > Juergen > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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Madison Pruet — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

There is not too much put there. Basically it is used by the networking portions of the clients and the engines to discover key information about what servers are installed on the machine and how to get to them. If you are really tight on space, then you could probably make /INFORMIXTMP into a link to some other location. Juergen Ritter wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Informix IDS 7.30UC7 on SuSE Linux 6.2. Everything works fine, > but there is on thing that makes me nervous. When 'oninit' is started, the > process creates a dirtectory /INFORMIXTMP. Why? What is this directory used for? > The problem is, that I don't have very much space on /, so is there any Variable > (like INFORMIXDIR) I can set to put this directory somewhere else (eg > /opt/informix/tmp). > > Bye > Juergen

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