Re: Gene - syntax/punctuation for an object in a schedule

2006-01-20 Thread Peter Hitchman
Hi, When you set these things up, remember that the command is being passed to a shell for execution, since most Unix shells do not like a space between a redirection operator and a filename, the command is probably failing. You should find the failure logged on the client in tsm home area.

Re: Gene - syntax/punctuation for an object in a schedule

2006-01-20 Thread Gene Shaffer
I am creating the schedule using the Admin GUI. I tried putting a single quote around the string and it just sat there. When I looked at the schedule again it had stripped the single quotes out, so I tried a single quote on each end and a double quote outside of those. It sat there, but did not

Re: Gene - syntax/punctuation for an object in a schedule

2006-01-20 Thread Richard Sims
On Jan 19, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Gene Shaffer wrote: ... nohup ./backupset/gen_backupset2.sh backset.out ... but when I update it with TODAY and NOW to get it to run and test it out it just sits there. Gene - I seriously doubt that the problem has anything to do with quotes or spaces.

Re: Gene - syntax/punctuation for an object in a schedule

2006-01-20 Thread Gene Shaffer
Sadly enough, on the AIX system that this lives on, /backupset IS the full path to gen_backupset2.sh. I'm beginning to lose heart and start considering alternatives like throwing this in crontab or maybe some administrative immediate action schedule. I have tried a simple test script that merely

Re: Gene - syntax/punctuation for an object in a schedule

2006-01-20 Thread Richard Sims
On Jan 20, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Gene Shaffer wrote: Sadly enough, on the AIX system that this lives on, /backupset IS the full path to gen_backupset2.sh. Then by all means have that in your specification. Your original posting said ./backupset/gen_backupset2.sh which is a relative, rather

Gene - syntax/punctuation for an object in a schedule

2006-01-19 Thread Gene Shaffer
Hi; I am creating a schedule that invokes a script which generates backupsets. The Action field is set to COMMAND and in the Object field I am trying to pass the string to execute the script. It is: nohup ./backupset/gen_backupset2.sh backset.out I believe it needs single or double quotes or

Re: Gene - syntax/punctuation for an object in a schedule

2006-01-19 Thread John Monahan
The entire command should be surrounded in single quotes. I believe it will also help if you remove the space before backset.out like so: backset.out What interface are you using to create the sched - Admin Center, older web admin, or command line? __ John Monahan