Re: Down grade from 9.21.UC2 to 7.30.UC6

Richard Spitz wrote: > tbarth@barth-rz.de schrieb: > > >>could your please explain "point the binaries to >>the 7.3 version" ! How does this work ? What to do ? > > > This simply means that you have to use the 9.21 binaries > to do the reversion (onmode -b), then use the 7.3 binaries > to re-start the informix engine. The easiest way to have > several versions of informix is to install them in different > directories and point the INFORMIXDIR environment variable > to the one you want to use. Of course, you also have to adjust > your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly. It would cause > havoc if you just set INFORMIXDIR to the 7.3 directory tree > and leave PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH still pointing to the > 9.21 binaries. An even simpler method is to use /usr/informix (or whatever) in all your variables, then create it as a link to your current version directory. It's simpler because you don't have to change all your variables, just drop and recreate the link when changing version. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@MydasSolutions.com |//////// /| | Mydas Solutions Ltd http://MydasSolutions.com |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |We value your comments, which have |/// / ////| | |been recorded and automatically |// / /////| | |emailed back to us for our records.|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+ sending to informix-list