Re: Startup & Shutdown scripts wisdom needed for informix 7.2

In article <32409CB9.459D@west.co.za>, "Mark D. Stock" <marks@west.co.za> writes >Juan R. Guzman wrote: >> >> /bin/su - informix -c "${INFORMIXDIR}/bin/ontape -c &" >> <ETC, ETC> > >I hate to be a critic of a nice script, But... >I have come across so many sites with automated log backups (I am referring >to your use of ontape -c) that I don't have much hair left. An example: > >I had a site which had crashed, and I restored and then tried loading the >log tapes. The one they gave me and the logs I took off the system. Well >you can guess the rest, there was a big gap between the two. So I asked who >looked after the log backups, and they said "Oh nobody, it's fully automatic. >We just make sure the log tape is in the drive". Notice they said "..THE >log tape...". Arghh! So whenever the system went down, or was re-booted, >yes you guessed it, they overwrote the previous logical logs. > >But otherwise the script looks fine. I've finished whinging now. > >Cheers, So what is the answer for a site that wants to run fully automated logging and do not want people to have to restart continous loggin by hand? I hand a site who wants to do just this and I'm currently talking to Informix about this exact problem. -- David Williams