dbexport on RH7.0
Andreas Kumpf found dbexport on Red Hat 7.0 created an empty export directory. Sergey Volkov said it seemed specific to that release. Petr Sretr pointed to a fileutils patch or newer package. Andreas confirmed installing fileutils 4.0.36 fixed it. Jonathan Leffler explained two bugs combine: Informix runs mkdir without stdio, and mkdir fails closing stdout.
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Hi,
any solutions for the nearly well-known problem ?
>> Cannot make dbexport directory <<
but a dbexport directory is made but left empty...
Greets,
Andi
Hi.
This looks like RedHat7.0 specific problems.
I had test Informix 7.30 on Redhat 6.0 and IIF-2000 on Mandrake 7.1 and
7.2 without any problems.
Good luck.
Sergey.
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Andreas Kumpf <ak@a-w.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> any solutions for the nearly well-known problem ?
> >> Cannot make dbexport directory <<
> but a dbexport directory is made but left empty...
>
> Greets,
> Andi
>
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> Hi,
>
> any solutions for the nearly well-known problem ?
> >> Cannot make dbexport directory <<
> but a dbexport directory is made but left empty...
There is something wrong with fileutils.
Try this patch for fileutils
http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/jan_kasprzak/fileutils/
or use package from rawhide
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/fileutils-4.0.36-1.src.rpm
Hi, > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/fileutils-4.0.36-1.src.rpm Thanks, it worked. I installed fileutils-4.0.36.rpm (as binary). Greets, Andi
Andreas Kumpf wrote: > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/fileutils-4.0.36-1.src.rpm > > Thanks, it worked. > I installed fileutils-4.0.36.rpm (as binary). The nitpicking details are that there are two bugs, one in Informix code and one in the fileutils code, and it requires both to get the bad behaviour. The Informix code is running the mkdir command with no stdin, stdout or stderr; the mkdir code is trying to close stdout and failing, and then reporting this as an error condition. Ugh! (And what's wrong with the mkdir(2) system call anyway?) -- Yours, Jonathan Leffler (Jonathan.Leffler@Informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"