Re: Stopping "ONTAPE" crashes online 7.11 Answered: amber (hollow confidence) — Message quotes the full original question about ontape crashing the engine on interrupt and answers that pressing the interrupt key has worked reliably for the responder, but on a slightly different point release (7.11 UC1 vs. the asker's 7.11.ud1), so it may not explain the asker's specific crash.

Advisory only.

Posted in 1996

💣 This thread may describe something risky to do carelessly

The suggested method of stopping a running ontape is to send it an interrupt signal (Ctrl-C) rather than using a supported stop mechanism; the original poster reports this crashing the online engine, so interrupting ontape this way risks leaving an archive or the instance in an inconsistent state.

ontape (interrupted via signal/Ctrl-C)

Advisory only — not a substitute for testing in a non-production environment first.

Juan R. Guzman — Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:43:08 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Darin Melin wrote: > > Is there a non-crashable method for stopping the "ontape" process > that will not crash the database. We are using Online 7.11.ud1 on > Solaris 2.4 on Sparcenter 2000E's. > > Thanks > I just press the interrupt key and it stops. I can't remember it ever going down for aborting ontape, and I've done that at least a dozen times. I have sparc 20 with Solaris 2.4 and On-line 7.11 UC1.