> From: Jim Langston
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 8:32 PM
> To: Veritas-Bu (E-mail)

> I had a problem running the available_media command this 
> morning and did a ctrl_c to get out of the running job.  it 
> didn't exit, so I closed the cmd window I had open.  Now 
> everytime I run available_media, I get the following error:
> 
> You are already running Available_Media.
> Try again later.
> 
> I searched the archives and google, and there is a fix for 
> NT4, which is removing a lock file in C:\temp.  I'm running 
> W2K, SP3 Netbackup Datacenter 4.5 MP5.  Anyone have any ideas?

 "del %TEMP%\AM.*.lok"


 As seen in the the available_media.cmd script:
...
 @set LOCKFILE="%TEMP%\AM.%USERNAME%.lok"
 @if NOT exist %LOCKFILE% goto SetLock
 @echo You are already running Available_Media. 1>&2
 @echo Try again later. 1>&2
...


Cordialement.
-- 
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.