Your inittab for AIX should look something like this

autosrvr:2:once:/usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin/rc.adsmserv >/dev/console 2>&1
#Start the ADSM server
adsm:2:once:/etc/rc.adsm >/dev/null 2>&1 # ADSM SCHEDULer

*** I couldn't tell if your autosrvr line said 'nice' or 'once'
*** the file was corrupt and had a lot of ascii characters in it

Your /etc/rc.adsm should look something like this

echo "Starting ADSM scheduler"
dsmc schedule -quiet &

Your /usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin/rc.adsmserv file should look like this, which
your's does

#!/bin/ksh
#
# Start up ADSM Server....

# Get the language correct....
export LANG=En_US

if [[ "$1" = 'kernel' ]]; then
    # Load the ADSM kernel extension
    cd /usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin
    print "$(date '+%D %T') [ADSM] Loading Kernel Extension"
    loadpkx -f pkmonx
    cd -
else
    print "$(date '+%D %T') [ADSM] Starting Server"
    # Start the server
    cd /usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin
    dsmserv    quiet
fi

Another thing you may try is to move your inittab entry to a different
location, like maybe the very last statement
Another thing I noticed was that you were redirecting stderr to
/tmp/adsmerr this should be to /dev/console or you
may have to touch /tmp/adsmerr it looks like it can't open the error
file. I would personally want everything to go
to /dev/console on bootup all other errors go to the standard error log
file.

Mark A. Adams
UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Chantal Loo [SMTP:cloo AT FGH.CO DOT ZA]
>Sent:  Tuesday, October 07, 1997 1:56 AM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       ADSM NOT COMING UP AT SYSTEM BOOT
>
>Adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu
>
>
>Hi,
>We have ADSM/AIX  V2.1.5.13 server and ADSM AIX 2.1.0.6 client installed.
>After a system boot, the ADSM server does not come up.
>
>I have 3 files :
>Error.log          - the errors that are generated when trying to bring up
>the        server
>Init.tab             - the inittab entry to bring up ADSM
>Rc.adsm          - the script that is called from the inittab
>
>The strange thing is that I can manually bring up ADSM from root's directory
>by executing /usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin/rc.adsmserv and the server comes up fine.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem could be? It could be that
>I am doing something very silly.
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Chantal Loo
>
> << File: error.log >>  << File: init.tab >>  << File: rc.adsm >>