ALARMPROGRAM (was DSA 7.22 UC1 on HP-UX 10.10 Crash )

> No help there errno 5 is the dreaded generic "I/O error". Anyway there > are three problems here: > > The first problem (at 14:43:33) looks like a failure of a pipe > connection. This is either a bug or someone/something destroyed a pipe > connection. > > The second problem at 14:34:34 the invokation of the alarm program > failed because ALARMPROGRAM was set to "/dev/null". If you want no > alarm program just leave the parameter blank: > > ALARMPROGRAM # No program wanted Hmmm, from reading the manual that looks correct. It just doesn't seem to match what I just saw, though. Today I upgraded a 7.14.UD1 instance to 7.23.UC6. I left ALARMPROGRAM blank, as it had been in the 7.14 onconfig. When I ran oninit for the first time, the message log reported: 10:22:52 INFORMIX-OnLine Stopped. Mon Jan 26 10:34:16 1998 10:34:16 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/opt/informix/7.23.UC6/etc/log_ful l.sh' 10:34:20 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 10:34:21 INFORMIX-OnLine Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 10:34:21 Physical Recovery Started. 10:34:21 Physical Recovery Complete: 0 Pages Restored. 10:34:21 Logical Recovery Started. 10:34:24 Logical Recovery Complete. 0 Committed, 0 Rolled Back, 0 Open, 0 Bad Locks 10:34:24 Onconfig parameter ALARMPROGRAM modified from <blank> to /opt/informix /7.23.UC6/etc/log_full.sh. 10:34:24 Dataskip is now OFF for all dbspaces 10:34:25 On-Line Mode 10:34:25 Converting 'sysmaster' database ... 10:34:25 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. It seems that for some reason, under 7.23.UC6 at least, that a blank value for ALARMPROGRAM may cause the engine to default to $INFORMIXDIR/etc/log_full.sh, whether you want it or not. Remember, I said I left the ALARMPROGRAM blank in the onconfig, yet we see that the engine notes the parameter has changed. To get around this, I changed it to $INFORMIXDIR/etc/no_log.sh. Has anyone else seen this? Mark Collins mcollins@us.dhl.com Words that come to mean everything may finally mean nothing; yet their very emptiness may allow them to be filled with a mesmerizing glamour.