Re: Informix error -408?

In article <1995Aug21.080811.23145@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> nataraj@dolphin.NoSubdomain.NoDomain "Nataraj K.S." writes: > I am running Informix 5.x (online) on a Solaris 2.4 on Sun SPARCstation 20 > > 1. If informix is brought up from command line (after the machine has booted) > and our application run, then our applicatin comes up properly. > > 2. If it is run from /etc/rc3.d/<start_up_script>, which > brings up informix and then runs our application, we get cannot > connect to database infomix error -408 When you are at the command line you have logged in which has set up the environment (via .profile etc.), but in the 'rc3.d' script I suspect this hasn't happened so INFORMIXDIR, PATH & DBPATH aren't correct. I suggest using the 'env' command from both the startup script & the command line (saving output into files) to check what's different. Will the application have further problems accessing a VDU from the startup script - or doesn't it need one? Just a thought. Regards -- ============================================================================ Sally Woolrich | This mail contains my personal sally@excelsis.demon.co.uk | views not those of my employer! ============================================================================