> On all of our database servers we run an archive nightly but instead of a
> regular "archive" we run a command instead:
>
> su - oracle /home/oracle/scripts/backup/db_backup.sh
>
> this script handles all the processing of the database and calls a dsmc
> archive command. on 97% of the servers it works fine. however, on just a
> few of them... that dont appear to be any different, the script
> immediately dies with a return code of 1 (no, its not permissions)....
> however tsm reports it as completed (another problem). it doesnt appear
> the script ever gets run because we use a debugging statement for the
> first line that never gets called. nothing in the environment seems to be
> a problem and on one system it just suddenly stopped working without any
> changes being made.
>
> any ideas whats going on here? we're running aix 4.3.3, tsm client 5.1.5
> and server aix 4.3.3 tsm 4.2.2... even on the servers it works on.
>
> Steven A. Conko
> Senior Unix Systems Administrator
> ADT Security Services, Inc.
>
