Re: Unable to open input file 'c'

On Oct 23, 2:44 pm, "David Reed" <david.r...@tollink.co.za> wrote: > Informix 7.x > SCO Unix > > When I do oninit, I get the following messages: > Unable to open input file 'c' > Unable to open input file 's' > > Informix go into fast recovery and then crash. Any advice? I've seen this one long ago. Vague memory, but IB it's related to the ownership or privs of /dev/console especially if you have the CONSOLE parameter in the ONCONFIG file pointing there. It's a particularly useless message, but I remember something like this. Art S. Kagel

Art S. Kagel wrote: > On Oct 23, 2:44 pm, "David Reed" <david.r...@tollink.co.za> wrote: >> Informix 7.x >> SCO Unix >> >> When I do oninit, I get the following messages: >> Unable to open input file 'c' >> Unable to open input file 's' >> >> Informix go into fast recovery and then crash. Any advice? > > > I've seen this one long ago. Vague memory, but IB it's related to the > ownership or privs of /dev/console especially if you have the CONSOLE > parameter in the ONCONFIG file pointing there. It's a particularly > useless message, but I remember something like this. > > Art S. Kagel In the file evidence.sh there are two lines : ev_pretty $ONSTAT -g smb s ev_pretty $ONSTAT -g smb c These onstats are used to print out sbspace information. They make sense in 9.x but not in 7.x IDS version . When you call %onstat -g smb s or %onstat -g smb c in a 7.x environment onstat will report these messages about input files that can't be opened. Unfortunately the updated version of evidence.sh (that one that included these onstat commands) made it into all IDS build environments (not only >=9.x) So what it means when you see these messages on the terminal after you typed %oninit simply is that IDS crashed upon the attempt to start it. You may ignore the message about not being able to open input fil 'c' or 's' but you probably want to investigate the reason for the crash. (look online.log, af.xxxxx file) I think they fixed evidence.sh in saome later IDS 7.31.xD but not sure. Rgds Tilman