Installing the TSM Version 6 Client for Solaris 10 and 11

7.1. ANS1398E Initialization functions...

When running dsmc or dsmj and the following or similar is displayed:

ANS1398E Initialization functions cannot open one of the Tivoli Storage Manager logs
or a related file: /var/log/dsmerror.log. errno = 13, Permission denied

This means that dsmc or dsmj cannot write to the log file. Most likely this is beacuse you are running dsmc as a user who cannot write to /var/log/dsmerror.log

Rather than allowing all users of the system to be able to write to the /var/log/dsmerror.log file it is best to have

ErrorlogName            /var/log/dsmerror.log

commented out of /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.sys with a * at the beginning of the line. Then rather than using dsmc from /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc it is best to use the HFS supplied wrapper script /usr/bin/dsmc which sets the environmental variable DSM_LOG to the users home directory. One expection here is that when the home directory is / (probably the root user) then DSM_LOG is set to /var/log/dsmerror.log.

The dsmj wrapper script is similar to the dsmc wrapper script.

The dsmcad wrapper script for scheduled backups always sets DSM_LOG to /var/log/dsmerror.log.