Comment below. -- Bhaskar
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kevin Toppenberg Sent: Fri 4/1/2005 12:59 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Fileman drop-out on pointer update Marianne, [KSB] <...snip...> Is this really a 'bug'? Or is it one of those funny database-needs-to-be-rundown type situations? [KSB] Kevin, you are invoking rundown as if it is a lucky rabbit's foot to be kept in the pocket and touched for good luck. Unless something is fundamentally flawed in how you operate GT.M, you should not need rundown. Fortunately, it's harmless (the only time not to try it is when you are bringing up the computer after a crash like a power failure and you are about to do a mupip journal -recover -backward, and even there it's usually harmless). The only time you would need it is when you are bringing up a database when something has gone wrong - like a system crash, and you didn't have journaling turned on, or when the last process accessing a database terminated abnormally (e.g., someone issued a kill -9 on it). It's also a quick way to see whether anyone is in the database, when you are powering down the system, or replacing one GT.M version with another. At other times, it is no more than that rabbit's foot. -- Bhaskar
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