Arnaud,

You could always make the accounting log file a softlink to a more
forgiving location...

It probably would also make sense to do some kind of regular log rotation
with the file.

Ted

At 10:39 AM 5/4/2004, you wrote:

Ted,

Now I realise you where certainly right ! Unfortunately I disabled
accounting some times ago, as it leaded us to server crash, because /usr
was full. At that time I did not knew how to direct it anywhere else as
it's standard path, and afterwards forgot to reactivate it : like
allways higher priority tasks ... Add to this that unlike computers I'm
working first in - last out, and you'll get a nice mess !
Cheers.

Arnaud

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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Ted Byrne
Sent: Tuesday, 04 May, 2004 16:16
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM DB growing, but number of files remains the same ...


Arnaud,


>I believe what I have to do now is to build some solid queries to
>explore our activity log...

Unless I'm mistaken, I believe that you may have misread Richard's
advice.  (Correct me if I'm wrong, Richard.) His recommendation:

>I stress accounting log reporting because it is the very best, detailed

>handle on what your clients are throwing at the server

Accounting log records are comma-delimited records written to a flat
file called dsmaccnt.log, assuming that you have accounting turned on.
If you don't, I would recommend that you turn it on now...

The accounting log records give a very detailed, session-by-session
picture of the activity between the server and clients. It will be
easier to parse and process than what you can get out of the activity
log.

Ted