Re: Death of an archive

Dan Madvig - Bethel College & Sem. (daniel@genesis.admin.bethel.edu) wrote: : I was testing an OnLine archive crontab script using "tbtape -s". : Once I got the archive going I killed the "tbtape" (I planned to let : cron run it later). Naughty! Naughty! Informix went into ABORT : mode (critical section) and OLE died. Ouch! How can an archive have : a "critical section"? The same can happen with tbcheck, or any other Informix utility which accesses shared memory. Using SIGKILL (-9) on *anything* is troublesome. I use it only when nothing else works. Other signals ought to be handled by the process with reasonable results, although you can't count on it. Once I brought down OnLine by accidentally sending SIGQUIT to a tbcheck. SIGQUIT can be generated from the keyboard, and in fact I had accidentally pressed it. Well, live and learn ... -Jeff