On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:15:57PM -0700, nate wrote: > tool) that the system accepted the change(it has some sort of DB > backend..)
That's not entirely isolated to AIX. Some other systems keep some things (like user accounts) database files somewhere, and just update the files in /etc for backwards compatibility. > AIX is screwed up as it is though, I mean I was shocked to learn to > load SSH on startup I had to put it in /etc/inittab! wtf! (maybe that > was AIX 4.2..I keep gettin the 2 versions confused) Suddenly, something I saw with IBM DB2 7.x on Linux makes a lot more sense. Even though all of their officially-supported distributions use SysV inits, the way they tell you to have DB2 start at boot is by adding a runonce line to inittab to run /etc/rc.DB2. Which means that DB2 would get shut down when init sent it TERM and KILL signals. Databases usually don't like that.... -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
