Hi Robert,

as far as I know the effect of '2>&1' is, that errors will be forwarded to '&1'
which is '/dev/console'
As there is a log for the webclient (dsmwebcl.log) you could just throw the
error messages away with '2>/dev/null'

Isabel

Robert Dowsett schrieb:

> Hi everyone.
>
> We have recently been trying to use dsmcad on our SGI clients to handle
> launching the dsmc sched process.
>
> This works ok except that the dsmcad process echos all messages to the
> client's console so that we get all the messages coming from the scheduler
> displayed on the console. This output literally drowns out all the other
> console messages.
>
> When we start dsmcad we use the following command to redirect its output...
> /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad  1>/dev/null 2>&1
>
> We have the following entries in our dsm.sys....
>           SCHEDLOGname           /var/adm/adsm/dsmsched.log
>      Managedservices         webclient schedule
>
> The  /var/adm/adsm/dsmsched.log is written to each day with the output of
> the scheduler (which is desirable).
> We also get output from dsmcad in dsmwebcl.log.
>
> Is there any way to stop the dsmcad process from writing to /dev/console??
>
> Our setup:
> TSM client v4.1.2.99/v4.2.0.0 for SGI
> IRIX 6.5
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
>
> Robert Dowsett
>
> IS Partner, Norsk Hydro