Re: "tbmode -z" doesn't kill - or even wound!

Eric Warner (Eric@northop.demon.co.uk) wrote: : Hi, we've recently inherited an Informix On Line 4.1 system on a SCO : server and I've been elected DBA - on the basis that I knew what QWERTY : meant. : I've had some formal training where I was told "Don't ever use kill -9 : to kill an Informix process - use tbmode -z instead." "EVER!" : I needed to kill off a telnet login today for the first time, so <open : book> tbstat -u to get the pid then tbmode -z pid to kill it. Not. : Were you trying to kill an engine process? Sounds like you were just trying to kill the login....tbmode doesn't affect this. Use tbmode -z to kill any tbinit processes. Joe -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------