Hello,

Running  AIX 4.1.1
Server 4.1.1
Oracle    8.1.7

I'm trying to allocate a channel in rman and getting the following
error....has anyone seen
this before?  Thanks for your help....

Bonnie Argeropoulos
bargeropoulos AT elliot-hs DOT org


Recovery Manager: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production
RMAN-06005: connected to target database: LAWPRD (DBID=2516819323)
RMAN-06009: using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog
RMAN> allocate channel t1 type 'sbt_tape' ;
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands
RMAN-01005: syntax error: found "identifier": expecting one of: "for"
RMAN-01008: the bad identifier was: t1
RMAN-01007: at line 1 column 18 file: standard input