You can avoid this behavior by setting environmental variable DSM_LOG (f.e.
in user's profile for particular users, or in system wide profiles like
/etc/environment) pointing to the directory where your (let's say main)
dsmerror.log resides..

Best regards,
Martin Trcka

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On
> Behalf Of Denis L'Huillier
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:08 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: dsmerror.log location.
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>
> Also,
> If you have other people loggin into the machine tsm will drop a
> dsmerror.log file in the current directory
> the user is in when they execute dsm/dsmc and there is an error condition.
>
> Likely the dsmerror.log files which are appearing in odd places are caused
> by users executing tsm.
> Look at the contents of the dsmerror.log file and see if the timestamp is
> during the backup cycle.
> I'll bet it's during the day.
>
> Regards,
>
> Denis L. L'Huiller
> 973-360-7739
> dlhuillier AT pershing DOT com
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> yes William the only place i know about where you can define the errorlog
> retention is in the dsm.sys file.
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> you can do it like this
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> ERRORLOGNAME %the path and the name of the errrolog file%
> ERRORLOGRETENTION %how long you are going to keep the log%
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> Example
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> ERRORLOGNAME /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/dsmerror.log
> ERRORLOGRETENTION 10D
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Evans, William C
> Sent: 8. aprml 2002 15:02
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: dsmerror.log location.
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>
> Folks,
>   While I S.A. about 16 TSM servers I am not a TSM administrator and know
> little about TSM other than how to install and config the client
> and how to
> kick off the scheduler.  However, I am responsible for the
> scheduled backup
> of these TSM servers to other servers and therein lies my dilema.  I am
> finding my dsmerror.log files all over the place which makes scripting to
> have them emailed to me every Monday morning a pain.  It was my
> understanding that you set up the location for your dsmsched and
> dsmerror.logs in your dsm.sys file along with their retention periods.  Is
> there somewhere else that those locations can be set?  On those servers
> where I'm finding these log files put in odd locations I find no entry in
> the dsm.sys file that would put them where they're being found.
> TIA,
> Bill
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