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

Eric Warner 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. > > Hmmm, ps -ef then try to tbmode -z the parent process. Nope. > > Hmmmmmm, called The Bearded One who tutted for a while and then finally > killed it with "kill". > > So the question to you experienced folk out there is "Is tbmode -z just > one of those Good Things that nobody actually does in real life or was > I just unlucky?" > > Hopefully, > > Eric. > > =============================================================== > Eric Warner Northop, Clwyd, North Wales, U.K. > > Disclaimer: I disclaim everything. > =============================================================== > I've always done a kill -13 (and sometimes a -9) to the sh in Online 5.1 and never encountered a problem in 3 years (maybe I was just lucky).