per Alex's suggestion, i'll put the export command in the dsmcad start script. 
but it 
appears linking the TSM libcurl.so.4 library to the OS's fixes the problem, see 
below. 
but, this feels like hack and i don't know what issues this may cause. any 
thoughts?

to me it looks like a conflict between the TSM Client libraries and the OS's 
that need to 
be corrected by Tivoli. but presently i'm working with first level support on 
this and 
being ask for every basic information that doesn't apply to the problem.

mv /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/libcurl.so.4 
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/libcurl.so.4.sav
ln -s /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4 /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/libcurl.so.4

On 10/04/2012 06:21 PM, Alex Paschal wrote:
> Hi, John. Typically, instead of setting this variable globally, you
> would set it in a script before it calls dsmc, that way the variable's
> only set until the script ends. Only if you're running this as a
> dedicated service user, or only if it doesn't break anything, would I
> recommend setting the variable in the user's .kshrc, .bashrc,
> .bash_profile, .profile, or whatever.
>
>
> On 10/4/2012 11:39 AM, Underdown,John William wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> i'm having a problem with setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable on a Linux box 
>> for backing up
>> VM's see below. any guidance on this would be most appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Problem Details
>> .
>> Product or Service: Tivoli Storage Manager Client Linux 6.3.L
>> Component ID: 5698ISMCL
>> .
>> Operating System: Linux
>> .
>> Problem title
>> ans8810E setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> .
>> Problem description
>> on RHEL 5.x i would set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH globally in the login profile. 
>> on RHEL 6.x
>> when i do that, it breaks many of the RHEL commands., see below. what is the 
>> best way to
>> set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable?
>>
>>
>> # yum update
>> Fatal Python error: pycurl: libcurl link-time version is older than
>> compile-time version
>> Aborted (core dumped)
>>
>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) 
>> 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64
>>
>> TSM Client Version 6, Release 3, Level 0.15
>>
>>
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