RE: [Info-ingres] netutil and upgradedb

hi you,

The files you are after are IILOGIN_machinename and IINODE_machinename.
The other files hold the installation password tickets and GCN cache
info.

g



> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-ingres-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:info-ingres-
> admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of martin.bowes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:08 PM
> To: info-ingres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Info-ingres] netutil and upgradedb
>
> Hi Me.
>
> Looks like its stored under $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files/name
>
> Now I get to restore the stuff - fortunatly I save it all - and
see
> if
> that restores my NET entries.
>
> Marty
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I'm trying to upgrade a set of II2.0 and II2.5 installations to
II2.6.
> > Fortunatly, I'm doing this on a test installation first....
> >
> > I have found that the upgrade process clobbers all the netutil
> > entries.
> >
> > I suspect that that is why upgradedb cant manage to upgrade the
> > distributed databases.
> >
> > The problem here is that although I can quiz netutil in advance of
the
> > upgrade and extract all the entries for all users - not just ingres
-
> > I cant extract the passwords. I suspect that in some installations
the
> > required passwords may have been lost in the mists of time. And
sorta
> > like Gorillas in the Mists, my chickens are coming home to roost.
> >
> > God - that's a tortured mixed metaphor Shakespeare would have been
> > proud of.
> >
> > I think the better option is to find where the entries are stored
and
> > preserve the file, so that after the upgrade has completed, I can
just
> > swap back the old file and hopefully all will be sweet and Gorillas
> > and Chickens will live in peace.
> >
> > Anyone know where the netutil entries are kept?
> >
> > Martin Bowes.
> > --
> > Random Duckman Quote #70:
> > Ajax: Dad's a puppet? That would explain his eerie silence whenever
> > Shari
> > Lewis drinks a glass of water.
> --
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> Other: Make a move & you're dead meat.
> Duckman: Does wetting myself count as moving?
>
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