I don't think this is a passwd file problem, as we get them frequently in
SQL-BT, and at this time the user has signed on.  However I do think it
does have something to do with authentication.  FYI we also get these with
SQL-BT for MS SQL server on NT.



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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:15:00PM -0500, David Longo wrote:
> The shadow passwd file on AIX is /etc/security/passwd.  I would check all
the permissions etc. on this file with some of my other AIX clients and see
if there is any variance.
>
> I am not aware of *SM doing any checks on files other than - can the user
doing backups access that file and is it newer than the one laready backed
, etc.  However maybe it does do something.
>
> Try excluding this file or the /etc/security directory - Exclude
/etc/security/*
> and see if problem still happens.  Does the sched log show what
file/filesystem was being backed up when failure occurs?
>
> A few thoughts.....

Well, running the backup as root so of course no problems with permissions
and
reading /etc/security/passwd. Also, the fs it fails on is /home, so no
point
even in excluding /etc/security/*.

I even went as far as thinking about deleting the filespace on TSM, but
after
seeing it fail on another TSM server it had never backed up to previously
I'm
not convinced it would make any difference...


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