Re: HELP use tbmonitor non-interactive way!

In article <1650@das13.snide.com> dave@das13.snide.com (Dave Snyder) writes: >In article <1992Apr9.175006.25922@uwm.edu>, felicia@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Felicia Chu Peng Cheong) writes: >> >> How can I have a cron task to execute tbmonitor tool to >> archive or unarchive or backup trans. log periodically? > >To the best of my knowledge, there is no way of performing a NON-INTERACTIVE >archive, unarchive, or logical log backup. tbtape is what you want, it is not completely non interactive but it is not forms based so you can feed it scripts via stdin. > >> How can I execute tbmonitor without without the interactive mode??? >> [If it's instructed in the manual, pleeeease also tell me where it >> is mentioned, I still find the Informix manuals are not very clear >> and easy to look-up something - my friends said too. ] > >Tbmonitor options can be executed from the command line with "tbstat". The tbstat deals with output or status commands. With more recent versions (4.1 & 5.0) you can do most Tbmonitor things with either tbmode or tbspaces. -jrg -- internet jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us John R. Galloway, Jr 795 Beaver Creek Way applelink D3413 CEO...receptionist San Jose, CA 95133 Galloway Research (408) 259-2490