4-12 IBM Informix OnLine Database Server Administrator’s Guide
Recovering from Corruption
Set the DUMPSHMEM environment variable at the system prompt or in your
.login or .cshrc (C shell) or your .profile (Bourne shell) file as follows:
DUMPDIR
The DUMPDIR environment variable directs the OnLine database server
process to save the diagnostic output generated by GCORE or DUMPSHMEM
to the specified directory instead of to the current directory.
Set the DUMPDIR environment variable at the system prompt or in your
.login or .cshrc (C shell) or your .profile (Bourne shell) file as follows:
Recovering from Corruption
This section describes some of the symptoms of OnLine system corruption
and actions that OnLine or you, as administrator, can take to resolve the
problems. Corruption in an OnLine system can occur as a consequence of
problems caused by hardware or the operating system, or from some
unknown OnLine problems. Corruption can affect either user process data or
OnLine control information.
C shell:
setenv DUMPSHMEM
Bourne shell:
DUMPSHMEM =
export DUMPSHMEM
C shell:
setenv DUMPDIR directory
Bourne shell:
DUMPDIR=directory
export DUMPDIR