I'd look for corruption in /etc/passwd, hosts, services etc.

We had Sun fail the other day (OK I unplugged the wrong server), the
ls on /etc/passwd said it was there but cat /etc/passwd said it
wasn't - very infuriating



"Art S. Kagel" wrote:
>
> Hi folk,
>
> Installed IDS 9.4 on RH 7, configured, brought it up, linked it into the
> sqlhosts on other machines. All was well. Then the blackout (test
> instance on my terminal PC, no UPS). Trying to restart the instance
> yesterday it failed with:
>
> Cannot find message file. Check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG
>
> INFORMIXDIR is correct and exported, DBLANG is not set and it was not set
> originally. I've tried setting it to "en_us" and "en_US" to the value of
> $LANG (en_US.iso885915). Tried to unset LANG. All fail.
>
> Haven't seen this one before. Probably simple. Any ideas?
>
> Art S. Kagel

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