Your .dsk file appears to be 0 bytes.  I think it needs to be bigger.

Andy Huebner

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Mario Behring
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 10:09 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] dsmserv initialization error

Hi list,

I am getting the following error when trying to start dsmserv on a Linux box:


Tivoli Storage Manager for Linux/i386
Version 5, Release 2, Level 2.0

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ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 08:54:48 on Dec 16 2003.
ANR7801I Subsystem process ID is 3209.
ANR0900I Processing options file dsmserv.opt.
ANR0902W Unsupported keyword found in file dsmserv.opt.
ANR0906I          Line No.  : 71
ANR0907I          Statement :    COMMmethod SHAREDMEN
ANR0908W          Error     : ...|...................
ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress.
ANR0212E Unable to read disk definition file dsmserv.dsk.


The /opt/tivoli/tsm/server directory shows 2 dsmserv.dsk files:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jun  1 11:09 dsmserv.dsk
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          970 Oct  4  2008 dsmserv.dsk.200810052302


Any help is appreciated.

Mario


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