onbar problem in 9.4

I've got a strange problem in 9.4FC1 running on solaris 8. We testing 9.4 backups using Veritas NetBsckup 5.0. Prior to this version we backed up all 64-bit servers to disk using ontape. Veritas calls onbar in a script. Veritas runs this as root. In troubleshooting I've discovered that I can't run onbar as root...period. The BAR_ACT_LOG gives the following output: 2004-03-17 11:36:16 25032 25030 Unable to open connection to database server: Informix Dynamic Server Stopped.. 2004-03-17 11:36:16 25032 25030 /src/informix/infdir/bin/onbar_d complete, returning 151 (0x97) hbsdevshm:/src/informix: The real interesting part is that all other commands work just fine...onstat, onmonitor, onmode, dbacccess. This only seems to be a problem with my 9.4 servers. Anybody have any ideas here?

Bleb wrote: > I've got a strange problem in 9.4FC1 running on solaris 8. We testing > 9.4 backups using Veritas NetBsckup 5.0. Prior to this version we > backed up all 64-bit servers to disk using ontape. Veritas calls > onbar in a script. Veritas runs this as root. > > In troubleshooting I've discovered that I can't run onbar as > root...period. The BAR_ACT_LOG gives the following output: > > 2004-03-17 11:36:16 25032 25030 Unable to open connection to > database server: Informix Dynamic Server Stopped.. > 2004-03-17 11:36:16 25032 25030 /src/informix/infdir/bin/onbar_d > complete, returning 151 (0x97) > hbsdevshm:/src/informix: > > The real interesting part is that all other commands work just > fine...onstat, onmonitor, onmode, dbacccess. This only seems to be a > problem with my 9.4 servers. > > Anybody have any ideas here? Did you configure the location of your XBSA library? Did you read the release notes? Under older versions of IDS, the library was expected in /usr/lib; under 9.40, the library is expected in $INFORMIXDIR/lib unless you configure it elsewhere. This avoids having IDS place any files outside $INFORMIXDIR (except on HP-UX with IIF and Java - but that's a rather special case). That's my best guess - did you look in BAR_DBUG_LOG? Did you look in the online log (MSGPATH)? There might be information there. IIRC, the ONCONFIG parameter is XBSA_LIB_PATH, but I've not reviewed the release notes to make sure. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/