Andrew Ferris wrote:

We throw a delay of 3 or so in and we're also running clustered servers so the 
clustering in 6.5 takes a looong time to start up. We're also loading McAfee 
too so there's a fair bit of stuff to get through before the CAD. I've only 
just started running SP5 as it has a NSS fix for a NFS/HSM locking bug but I 
haven't seen any TSM problems with it. It just sounds to me like the dsmc is 
loading too early. Have you tried playing with delay values (delay 15, 30, 45), 
... to see how much lag time the dsmc sched command could use?

Yes, we have tried delays up to 60 seconds. I have even tried loading
the nlms that stage 5 loads (or at least the ones that show up on the
console) at the end of autoexec.ncf (just before dsmc tries to load) and
dsmc/dsmcad still can't find the opt file when started from
autoexec.ncf. However, after pressing "any key" to resume the boot,
about 3 seconds later when the console prompt appears dsmc/dsmcad can be
loaded from the prompt.

It is like Netware is not presenting the file system to the TSM client
properly until the command prompt appears. Or something like that. Funny
that nobody else is seeing this problem. :-)

Andrew Ferris
Network Support Analyst
iCAPTURE Research Centre
University of British Columbia

boutilpj AT EDNET.NS DOT CA 2/24/2006 10:58:40 am >>>

Andrew Ferris wrote:

We're running 8.7.3.7 smp. I know that in our case our dsmcad loads right at 
the end of stage 5.

Same version of edir here. Interesting that your dsmcad loads after
stage 5. According to Novell the autoexec.ncf is loaded in stage 4.

http://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/anz20010401.html

Andrew Ferris
Network Support Analyst
iCAPTURE Research Centre
University of British Columbia

boutilpj AT EDNET.NS DOT CA 2/24/2006 9:57:56 am >>>

Andrew Ferris wrote:

When are you trying to load dsmc in autoexec.ncf? We load dsmcad as the last 
item in our autoexec.ncf after adding the search path to the client files.

Right at the end of autoexec.ncf, just before "stage5". We even tried
adding some delay but that didn't help. What version of edir are you
running?

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