[4562] in Hotline Meeting
ingres requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Fri Apr 12 19:22:35 1991
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 19:22:12 -0400
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: ops@MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU
Today a user requested that an ingres process be killed on aggamemnon,
our ingres server. Please don't do anything requiring root priveleges
on a server unless you understand what you are doing. Killing an
ingres backend leaves the database in an inconsistant state that
requires further cleanup. After an operating system crash or Ingres
crash (and killing an ingres backend causes an ingres crash), it is
necessary to:
login as root
su to rtingres
run "restoredb -s"
if this runs without error, then it is safe to use the databases.
Otherwise, a wizard has to look at it and figure out what is wrong.
-Mark
