Re: Need quick help - someone messed up our maxdb install...

Thanks much.  Those instructions helped us resurrect the system.

Cheers,
David


Dittmar, Daniel wrote:

> > We had a successfully running instance of MaxDB on Linux.  Somebody in 
> > our operations group inadvertently started an rpm install of MaxDB on 
> > the same machine, and now (of course) things aren't happy.  An attempt 
> >    
> [...]
>  
>
> > Stopping SAPDB webtools.../etc/init.d/sapdb: pidof: command not found
> > ok
> > Stopping SAPDB database instance REPORTS...failed:
> > Failed to get root path for 'REPORTS' Error! Connection 
> > failed to node 
> > (local) for database REPORTS: database not found
> >    
>
> It seems as if the software can no longer access the MaxDB registry.
> You can try to rebuild it by hand:
>
> - locate the independent program path
>  These can probably be found by looking at /etc/init.d/sapdb.
>  If you have an absolute path to dbmcli, then the path
>  before bin/dbmcli is the independent program path. Enter that
>  path into the file /etc/opt/sdb at IndepPrograms
>
> - locate the independent data path
>  search for a directory that contains the files
>  * Installations.ini
>  * Databases.ini
>  * REPORTS   # the configuration of your database REPORTS
>  The path before config/REPORTS is the independent data path. Enter
> that
>  path into the file /etc/opt/sdb at IndepData
>
> - make sure that Databases.ini contains an entry for database REPORTS
>
> Daniel Dittmar
>
>  


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