Re: Any Tricks For Installing Server then Tools

Hi David, I will give this a whirl ... thanks .. I know that the $INFORMIXDIR/msg folder gets corrupt ... but this is a pain as I am sure it is for others to. Is this the only directoy that gets mucked up from Informix ... from installing another product in the same directory? This may be a dumb question ... but would it not be easier ... just to force the cpio, tar , or rpm files (whatever informix wants to pack them under) to not copy over an existing file if one exists in that directory? I know these utilities allow this feature? Would this create problems? This makes more sense .. unless there is something I am missing from here? You know ... the simpliest of things ... cross your mind ;-) Any response appreciated. Lloyd AJ Wilson. "David Kosenko" <dkosenko@home.com> wrote in message news:5geb5ss6s3ur6smg9ep2iasvc49bsr9f0i@4ax.com... > Also sprach "Lloyd AJ Wilson" <lwilson@harriscomputer.com> : > > :Hi Everyone, > : > :As the message header says it all, I run into this problem all the time ... > :as it happens all the time in my environment. > : > [snip] > : > :Any help would be appreciated on this matter... as I am getting tired of > :doing this sort of procedure all the time. Its also a problem on the client > :end when I need to schedule done time for this ... although its not much ... > :it's still down-time to the user ... which effects everyone... > > Since it is pretty much just the message files that get hosed, I just do the > following: prior to installing the tools over an engine, I create a tar file of > the current contents of $INFORMIXDIR/msg. After installing the tool, I just tar > the contents back out to the msg directory. Hasn't failed me yet! If you > forget to make the tar at the beginning, just untar the msg directory from the > engine install media. > > Dave > >