On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Freels, James D. <freelsjd AT ornl DOT gov> 
wrote:
> /--  aixclient hd3 lev 0 FAILED [missing size line from sendbackup]
> sendbackup: start [aixclient:hd3 level 0]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/usr/bin/gtar
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gtar -f... -
> sendbackup: info end
> | gtar: ./.X11-unix/X0: socket ignored
> | Total bytes written: 1730560 (1.7MiB, 830KiB/s)
> ??sendbackup: could not unlock /etc/amandates: Bad file number
> ? dumper: strange [missing size line from sendbackup]
> \--------
>
> In trying to get this working, we have left the /etc/amandates file on
> the AIX client completely unprotected
>
> -rwxrwxrwx   1 amanda   system         1216 May 19 15:43 /etc/amandates
>
> We are puzzled as to how to fix this problem and would appreciate any
> and all helpful information.

Is there a way to examine outstanding filesystem locks on AIX, to see
if there is a process holding a lock on this file?

Dustin

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