[Techtalk] installing DBI without the Database

[Devdas Bhagat]

On 07/03/06 09:20 -0800, Meryll Larkin wrote:
> 3/7/06
> 
> Thanks Devdas,
> 
> I understood most of that.   I read the READMEs before I ever wrote to the
> list and I also downloaded the sdk (software dev kits) from 
>            http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix
>            http://www.ibm.com/software/data/developer/informix
> which is what those URLs point to.  They are VERY large files.
> 
> Still, I appreciate you quoting the READMEs because putting them in position
> like that made the situation more obvious to me.
> 
Ah cool. I have gotten too used to people not reading the documentation,
so actually having someone who has RTFM'ed is refreshing.

> I ran into an error message when trying to install sdk that said that I
> don't have enough space to install????  Obviously I need to investigate
> that:  check the config file.  More likely I don't have enough room on the
> particular partition in which it is trying to install.  
> 
Yup. The SDK probably needs some free space on that partition. You may
be able to install it elsewhere and symlink that directory so that it
becomes available in a standard location.

> I don't know if the RDBMS listens on an IP address.  That may very well be
> my problem.  Do you have any suggestions about how I could find out?  Or can
> you recommend some reference material that I should read?
> 
netstat is your friend. For example, netstat -lnt here shows me:
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5432          0.0.0.0:*		LISTEN

sudo netstat -lntpe
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5432          0.0.0.0:*		LISTEN
70         56752      14263/postmaster

That is PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL is also listening on a Unix socket at
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     56754	/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432

If I was unable to get a TCP/UDP socket for Pg, I would be able to
share /tmp via NFS and connect to the socket there.

HTH,
Devdas Bhagat