Re: Log Files -- Summary

Thanks, to the following people for their responses:

        Chester Martel <cmartel AT PEACH.FRUIT DOT COM>
        "Pittson, Timothy ,Corp/US" <tpittson AT HIMAIL.HCC DOT COM>

I have moved my dsmsched.log file from the "/" partition by editting
the dsm.sys file to add Timothy's recommendation.  I have also added
the ERRORLOGRETENTION to dsm.opt.  I've also defined system variable
names to root's "/.profile" in order to point to the errorlog file.

Thanks for all you help.

Chester Martel wrote:
> You can change the location of the dsmsched.log file by using the
> schedlogname entry in dsm.sys, you can also prune this log by
> using the schedlogretention parameter ( I use 10 d).  Your error
> log should not be that big and/or growing, my log is only 13k in size
> since July of 1996.  Your schedule log will grow but if you use the
> retention parameter and not move your existing file it should get
> pruned.  I put all my schedule log on a shared file system so I only
> have to look in one place.

Timothy Pittson wrote:
>The SCHEDLOGNAME option can be set in DSM.SYS to specify the location
>and name of the ADSM schedule log.  Additionally, the SCHEDLOGRETENTION
>option can also be set to automatically prune the file, keeping n days
>worth of log entries (can also specify whether you want to save the
>pruned entries).  For instance...
>
>schedlogname            /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/log/dsmsched.log
>schedlogretention       14
>
>For the errorlog, you need to set the DSM_LOG environment variable to
>point to the directory where you want to store the error log. For
>pruning it, use the  ERRORLOGRETENTION client option in DSM.OPT.
>
>These options are documented in ADSM Installing the Clients, Version 2
>(SH26-4049-01)

The original question was:
>We are using ADSTAR to back-up our user files on AIX 3.2.5.  On
>each of the system using it, the following two files keep getting
>created in the root paritition:
>
>dsmerror.log
>dsmsched.log
>
>Now, these files can get quite big.  Can I force or set these files
>to be stored on any particular directory (ie "/var").  I've
>been reading the "Administrator's Guide" without much success.

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