Syntax looks good.  Is dsmc in /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/?  If you cut the command
part of the line from inittab leaving off the /dev/null stuff and paste it
into a command line, what happens? You may have a syntax error in your
dsm.sys or dsm.opt file.  Also, do you rely on some environmental variables
that aren't getting set when running via inittab?

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Jim Coen wrote:

>     We recently began using adsm with the server on an IBM RS6000
>     box.  Now I have a fundamental question:
>
>     To restart the client portion of adsm, the manual says to
>     include the following line in /etc/inittab:
>
>      adsm::once:/usr/lpp/adsm/bin/dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1
>
>     However, when we reboot, this doesn't seem to work. The backups
>     will not commence unless I manually issue the 'dsmc sched' command.
>
>     Any ideas?
>
>     Thanks.
>
>     Jim Coen
>     Washburn University
>     Topeka, Kansas
>