Re: Please help an Informix Newbe
If you are installing software and don't care about
the transactions, set your tape device to /dev/null
and do ontape -a.
Leave the tape device as /dev/null during the
remainder of the install
-d
At 02:49 PM 12/1/97 +0000, Jeff Kalchik wrote:
}On Thu, 27 Nov 1997 08:14:40 +0100, "Nils van der Laan"
}<nilsl@simac.nl> wrote:
}
}>I am new to Informix and am getting things done with the hands-on approach.
}>This worked fine, untill I had to do something that is totaly new for me!
}>
}>I am in the middle of installing BaanIVc on Solaris 2.6 with Informix
}>7.24UC1 as an RDBMS. Now my problem:
}>
}>The logical logs are full! I don't know if I can safely use "onmode -sy" and
}>add some logs and after that swith back to "multi-user mode" (will this have
}>impact on the running installation. Since I am new to UNIX also, I don't
}>even know how to mount my tave-drive (in /dev/tapedev) and use "ontape -s -L
}>0" to make a backup of my logs.
}>
}>Who has some advice?
}
}I can't offer specific advice on your particular problem, but I'd
}strongly suggest that you take the Informix "Managing & Optimizing"
}and "Systems Administration" courses. I'm new to Informix, but have 7
}years in Unix, and I consider these courses nearly mandatory.
}
}
}Jeff Kalchik
}
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}Views expressed are my own, not necessarily
}3COM's.
}
}