Re: INFORMIXTMP ?

Posted in 1999

Christian Winterhager — Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:38:33 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hi Juergen, for every Instance of your IDS you can find hier a file named ".dbservername". Do not remove this directory INFORMIXTMP from /, because the server needs it for start. You can use the files in this directory for determining your instances, which are online. Juergen Ritter schrieb: > Hi, > > I just installed Informix IDS 7.30UC7 on SuSE Linux 6.2. Everything works fine, > but there is on thing that makes me nervous. When 'oninit' is started, the > process creates a dirtectory /INFORMIXTMP. Why? What is this directory used for? > The problem is, that I don't have very much space on /, so is there any Variable > (like INFORMIXDIR) I can set to put this directory somewhere else (eg > /opt/informix/tmp). > > Bye > Juergen