I would like to install fixpack 7a and the instructions say to stop all DB2
processes. I can see the Fault Monitor (db2fmd) running and I (and also my
Unix Administrator) can not seem to stop it. It always just spawns another
process. We have tried the commands db2fmcu -d and db2fm -d - with no
success. These commands error out with some error message that complains
about some env variable. Can someone help?

Hi,

stash wrote:

> Unix Administrator) can not seem to stop it. It always just spawns another

go slap your admins and tell them that something like inittab exists on
their system. During DB2-Installation, the following line is added to
/etc/inittab (example from DB2 UDB Express on Linux):

fmc:2345:respawn:/opt/IBM/db2/V8.1/bin/db2fmcd #DB2 Fault Monitor
Coordinator

so any time your admins kill the process, it is restarted automatically
which causes the effect described.

fmc:2345ff:/opt/IBM/db2/V8.1/bin/db2fmcd #DB2 Fault Monitor Coordinator

and use "init q" to reinitialize the system.

Works on all known Linux Systems and should work similary or equal on
proprietary Unixes.

references: inittab(5)

regards,

Norbert

stash wrote:
>
> I would like to install fixpack 7a and the instructions say to stop all DB2
> processes. I can see the Fault Monitor (db2fmd) running and I (and also my
> Unix Administrator) can not seem to stop it. It always just spawns another
> process. We have tried the commands db2fmcu -d and db2fm -d - with no
> success. These commands error out with some error message that complains
> about some env variable. Can someone help?

experiment with
db2fm -i dasusr1 -[dDkKh]

Wolfgang