Setting up onconfig

Does anyone know how to or have an example setup file (onconfig) to setup informix for linux. Also can you use a file for the database or do you have to use a partition? Thanks ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace name ROOTPATH /dev/hda3 # Path for device containing root dbspace ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) ROOTSIZE 20000 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes)

Steve burk wrote: > Does anyone know how to or have an example setup file (onconfig) to > setup informix for linux. Also can you use a file for the database or do > you have to use a partition? > Thanks > > ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace name > ROOTPATH /dev/hda3 # Path for device containing root dbspace > ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) > ROOTSIZE 20000 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes) You can, and on Linux 2.0.x and 2.2.x usually will, use a file rather than a device. I use a symbolic name for every device, and the name depends on the database server name, so I have files like /usr/informix/dev/anubis_73.rootdbs.c0 (for server anubis_73, chunk 0 of the rootdbs). This is often a symlink to some convenient file where there's space. The ROOTOFFSET is zero for cooked files; for some raw devices on some o/s, you need a non-zero offset. Choose a convenient size for the space; 20 MB is rather small these days. Note that the space will all be allocated when you initialize the server. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.62 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>