Re: Is Informix v7.23 good?

Mark D. Stock wrote: > Cosmo Lee wrote: > > > > Ohhh, ohhh, I loved that! Actually, I already corrected myself on > > this > > one. I got the ONCONFIG and the INFORMIXSQLHOSTS confused > > momentarily. Guess you didn't see that post . . . > > It actually came in after mine, and I replied to it. :-) > Guess you didn't see my reply. ;-) > Grrr . . . Nope, didn't see it. And I just wrote my ISP a note about the slowness of News postings and missing articles. I only saw your posting today - and it was dated 8/24! > > But I would *REALLY* love it if you could tell me that I am wrong > > about > > not being able to relocate the ONCONFIG file. I find it really > > annoying > > that you can't move this file somewhere other than ~/informix/etc. > > Sorry, I can't. You can't even use a symbolic link, because it drops > the link every time it writes to the file. > > > Whenever we load a new version of Online, we have to manually copy > the > > ONCONFIG file to the new directory. Informix seems to assume that > we > > will always install newer versions of Online to the same directory > as > > the previous version. What's with that??? > > Seems a fair assumption to me. If you bought two versions, then > that's fine. But if it's an upgrade, then the whole idea is to > overwrite your last version. Also, your support won't cover your old > version after the upgrade. > I can't say I would consider this a fair assumption. :-( Before I overwrite my old, stable version with a new one, I always load the newer version to another directory and test it out first. This seems to me like a smart strategy. Otherwise, if we load the new version and it doesn't work right - for whatever reasons we can't get back into business until we reloaded the older version. That means our system is down for the duration. This has happened before. Most recently (you've probably seem my posts, folks) we've gotten "Bad magic file/header" errors from `cpio` when trying to load Online. To date, we've found no solution to this, even after receiving a total of 4 Online CD-ROM distributions. If we hadn't copied files to a non-production directory, our system would have been down until we were able to reload the old version. -- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ADDRESS ALTERED TO FOIL SPAMMERS: Remove "*NO-SPAM*" to reply. Cosmo Lee Multi-User Computer Systems Brooklyn, NY "JUST SAY 'NO' TO SPAM" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *