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RE: losing Informix logs

Posted By: Danny Wright
Date: Monday, 12 September 2005, at 10:22 a.m.

In Response To: RE: losing Informix logs (Danny Wright)

It looks like you're right. I restarted informix over the weekend after
modifying MSGPATH, which was previously the same as CONSOLE and the problem
has gone away.

Thanks!

_____

From: Jonathan Leffler [mailto:jleffler.iiug@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:57 PM
To: Danny Wright
Cc: ids@iiug.org
Subject: Re: losing Informix logs [5726]


Those messages normally end up in the console log, I think.
Do you have your console set to the same place as MSGPATH?

If so, change it to a different name - /dev/null or a separate file.

If I'm right, there's almost an incipient bug there; the console might well
be opened each time without an append mode since, for a real console, that
would not cause any trouble. Actually, it might not even be as incipient as
all that.


On 9/9/05, Danny Wright <dwright@sherwoodfoods.com> wrote:

I think you're probably right about how it's happening.

We age the files on a weekly basis and keep the most recent 2, so I have 2
older copies to look at as well as the current copy and they all have
similar messages at the top of the file:

<<IBM Informix Dynamic Server>>> Logical Log 598 Complete, timestamp:
0xddc36c8.

That message only appears once in each of the files I have.

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: forum.subscriber@iiug.org [mailto: <mailto:forum.subscriber@iiug.org>
forum.subscriber@iiug.org] On Behalf
Of Everett Mills
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 9:43 AM
To: ids@iiug.org
Subject: RE: losing Informix logs [5723]

Danny-
I have a test system set up with IDS 9.40.FC6 on HP-UX 11.11.
It exhibits a similar behavior. I'm thinking one particular type of
message being written into the log is being sent with output to ">"
instead of append to ">>". You may want to see if a similar message
always appears at the top.

--EEM


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomchik, Kate [mailto:Kate_Tomchik@homedepot.com
<mailto:Kate_Tomchik@homedepot.com> ]
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 10:48 AM
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: RE: losing Informix logs [5720]
>
> Call your tech support and get them to check all the crons. This is
not
> being truncated by Informix.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: forum.subscriber@iiug.org [mailto:
<mailto:forum.subscriber@iiug.org> forum.subscriber@iiug.org] On
> Behalf Of Danny Wright
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:48 AM
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: losing Informix logs [5708]
>
>
> I asked this last week, but I never got a reply so I'll try once more.
>
> The Informix log file as specified by MSGPATH is being automatically
> truncated on a regular (roughly hourly) basis - how can I prevent
this?
>
> I've looked through the manuals and can't find anything about this
being
> cleared automatically.
>
> I've checked crontab for all users to make sure no one put something
in
> there to do this.
>
> We recently upgraded to 9.40 (64-bit) and onbar from 7.31 (32-bit) and
> ontape.
>
>
> I'd really like to manage the log file myself






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Messages In This Thread

• losing Informix logs
  Danny Wright -- Thursday, 8 September 2005, at 10:48 a.m.
  • AW: losing Informix logs
    Andreas.KUTSCHE@spar.at -- Thursday, 8 September 2005, at 11:38 a.m.
  • RE: losing Informix logs
    Lavoie, Diane -- Thursday, 8 September 2005, at 12:27 p.m.
  • RE: losing Informix logs
    Danny Wright -- Thursday, 8 September 2005, at 2:37 p.m.
  • RE: losing Informix logs
    Tomchik, Kate -- Friday, 9 September 2005, at 11:48 a.m.
    • RE: losing Informix logs
      Everett Mills -- Friday, 9 September 2005, at 12:43 p.m.
      • RE: losing Informix logs
        Danny Wright -- Friday, 9 September 2005, at 2:45 p.m.
        • Re: losing Informix logs
          Jonathan Leffler -- Monday, 12 September 2005, at 12:03 a.m.
        • RE: losing Informix logs
          Danny Wright -- Monday, 12 September 2005, at 10:22 a.m.

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