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RE: perm_r.4gi hangs?

Posted By: Michaelis, Daniel
Date: Monday, 25 April 2005, at 8:53 a.m.

In Response To: perm_r.4gi hangs? (RACHED BLILI)

Rached,

Wow... talk about a blast from the past... I believe that the "Echo"
application is actually something from a company that (at least used to)
calls itself Echo Management Group. I used to work for that company MANY
years ago. I can't remember specifically what perm_r.4gi does, but I can
tell you that it's not part of the Informix core application.

I wish I could give you better information about what the routine does; from
the name, and from vague recollection, I'd assume that it's part of the
permission scheme within the application. I'd look at the database schema,
look for permission tables, and then use onstat to determine what SQL is
causing the application to hang. It might be that there are locks, and
setting the lock mode to wait 30 seconds rather than indefinitely will solve
your problem.

I don't know if the company is still around, but if they are, you might want
to contact their technical support to find out what the routine does.
Alternatively, the "strings" command is your friend; as I recall they didn't
do much to "hide" the SQL from a "strings" statement.

Good luck!

Dan Michaelis

Database Administrator/Developer
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Suite 800
Baltimore, MD 21201

410.625.5187 (phone)
410.659.9799 (fax)


-----Original Message-----
From: RACHED BLILI [mailto:rached@strikerit.com]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 7:53 PM
To: ids@iiug.org
Subject: perm_r.4gi hangs? [4779]

Hi folks, this is my first time posting on this board.

I am a complete ignorant about Informix. I got called in to troubleshoot an
old SCO box which was misbehaving. I managed to track the problem down to a
script called perm_m which was making the following call:

fglgo $BASE/ADM/EXE/perm_r.4gi $DBNAME $HOME

This call just sits there and hangs. What is it trying to do? I have no
way of knowing and I hope one of you fine folks might be able to help me.

I commented out the above line in the script and the database application
(which called itself 'Echo') seems to start up fine.

This is IDS 7.30.UC2 (Very old, I know).

Messages In This Thread

• perm_r.4gi hangs?
  RACHED BLILI -- Friday, 22 April 2005, at 7:52 p.m.
  • Re: perm_r.4gi hangs?
    Obnoxio The Chav -- Saturday, 23 April 2005, at 6:10 a.m.
  • Re: perm_r.4gi hangs?
    Jean Sagi -- Saturday, 23 April 2005, at 8:53 a.m.
  • Re: perm_r.4gi hangs?
    RACHED BLILI -- Saturday, 23 April 2005, at 11:08 a.m.
  • RE: perm_r.4gi hangs?
    Michaelis, Daniel -- Monday, 25 April 2005, at 8:53 a.m.

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