Re: can't get ontape to work

On 3 March 2010 13:49, Floyd Wellershaus <floyd@fwellers.com> wrote: > Help I am bewildered by something I've done a million times. > I am working on upgrading in aix from ids 10 to 11.5. > Trying to do a quick ontape of a small instance before upgrading. > I am in my old INFORMIXDIR ( the 10 version ) > I set the ONCONFIG to a directory and file for TAPEDEV. > I chown informix:informix and chmod 660 ( tried 666, 777 etc.. ) to the > file. > > No matter what I do, even if Informix owns the directory, whenever I issue > the ontape command ontape -s -L 0, it I keep gettting: > could not write archive tape. > > What the heck is going on !! It's got to be something so overwhelmingly > simple that I am brain farting on. > > I have installed the 11.5 software, but I am not pointing to it at all, and > can't see how that can affect this, but who knows. > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > > Floyd Double check your environment, INFORMIXDIR, INFORMIXSERVER, INFORMIXSQLHOSTS, ONCONFIG and PATH. Keith