Wendy Alberg wrote:

>We've had trouble with one AIX system removing the file the password
>is stored in. I don't remember the name of the file; Reinhard, do you
>know it offhand? We don't know why the system removes the file. The
>system administrator now keeps a copy of that password file in another
>place so she can restore it quickly when the system trashes it.

Wendy, We have had this problem on AIX systems with HSM, on Digital Unix
with backup and others have reported it with archive. It's APAR IC13320
and is usually accompanied by ANR9999D smexec.c(3129) in the server
activity log. I believe the fix for this might be included in PTF 8.

Regards, Sheelagh

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