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.

you can do it like this

ERRORLOGNAME %the path and the name of the errrolog file%
ERRORLOGRETENTION %how long you are going to keep the log%

Example

ERRORLOGNAME /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/dsmerror.log
ERRORLOGRETENTION 10D




Kvedja/Regards
Petur Eythorsson
Taeknimadur/Technician
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX
Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified System Engineer

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