Zosimo,

I've been a victim of that also, and on Irix.  It can kill your system by
filling up the log very fast.

The fix is to use client 3.1.0.7 or later and use the switch
"ARCHSYMLinkasfile No".

Otherwise you end up with circular link definitions.  We fought that for a
year before that client version and switch were released.

Tab Trepagnier
TSM Administrator
Laitram Corporation







"Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IS&T)" <znoriega AT ADNOC DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on
07/28/2001 01:08:12 AM

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Subject:  ANE4017E - too many symbolic links were detected while resolving
      name ...


anybody can help me regarding this error.  i run archive of filespace
'/usr4' from sgi machine (unix), and then i got the series of error
messages
from the activity log, like this example:

07/26/2001 11:31:37 ANE4017E (Session: 3788, Node: SGIS01)  Error
processing
'/sgis01/usr4/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/Deskto

p/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/De

sktop/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/Desktop/akh095

2/Desktop/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/Desktop/akh0952/Desktop/ak

h0952/.gqs_awkprogs/.gqs_awkprogs': too many symbolic links were detected
while resolving name

how can i exclude this in archive or solve this symbolic liinks.  any help
from you is really appreciated.

regards,

Zosimo Noriega
A D N O C
IST-ITD DMSS
Tel -  6024987