onstat -g dis

Posted in 2010

Summary

Ali Shahnazi found that onstat -g dis still listed an instance he had dropped on an 11.5 system. Karl Oliver pointed to hidden .infos and .conf files in $INFORMIXDIR/etc, and removing them made the entry disappear. Jonathan Leffler added that some data comes from /INFORMIXTMP and some from the .conf.server files, while running servers also have .infos files. Solved.

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ALI SHAHNAZI — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:34:12 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Hi All Where the information "onstat -g dis" comes from ? I have a 11.5 environment with 3 existing instances, I dropped an old instance but I can see its name in "onstat -g dis". This doesn't cause any issue for operation but I am wondering where this info comes from ? Regards Ali

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KARL OLIVER — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:37:19 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

hi Maybe from file infos file in $INFORMIXDIR/etc and/or .conf.xxxxxxx ls -la will show you hidden files for example .infos.asp132_ecmp_live .conf.asp132_ecmp_live_rep removing these files you will find onstat -g dis no longer displays instance.

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ALI SHAHNAZI — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:45:51 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Thanks Karl worked. regards

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Jonathan Leffler — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:45:30 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 16:34, ALI SHAHNAZI <ali@datasync.com.au> wrote: > Where the information "onstat -g dis" comes from ? > > I have a 11.5 environment with 3 existing instances, I dropped an old > instance > but I can see its name in "onstat -g dis". > This doesn't cause any issue for operation but I am wondering where this > info > comes from ? > As you've found out, some of the information comes from /INFORMIXTMP (especially the list of directories that have been used as $INFORMIXDIR), and some comes from the '.conf.<server>' files in the individual $INFORMIXDIR/etc directories. Running servers have '.infos.<server>' files too. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2008.0513 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ "Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused." NB: Please do not use this email for correspondence. I don't necessarily read it every week, even. --002215048a438c8737049325c4f9

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