available_media command not working

[chrislogo]

I am getting below error while running available_media


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[root@kodiak tmp]# available_media
tail: cannot open `+3' for reading: No such file or directory
media   media   robot   robot   robot   side/   ret    size     status
 ID     type    type      #     slot    face    level  KBytes
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/bin/cat: /tmp/avail_media_sorted_output: No such file or directory
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Netbackup master server version - 6.5.4
OS version - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
Kernel Version - Linux kodiak 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:41:38 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Any help would be appreciated

[sunbird]

Solution:

The available_media script will fail because of some changes made to the Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.0 commands parameters. Customers should be able to change the available_media script with the following suggestions:

• Removed sort variables from script
• Changed tail and used head instead

To learn more about the cause of this specific issue, refer to TechNote 302582 (linked below).

http://library.veritas.com/docs/302582

[dltsc]

You can quickly fix this error by modifying the script.  Look for the line that uses tail and change it from "tail +3" to "tail -n+3"

[chrislogo]

now am getting belwo error

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[root@kodiak tmp]# available_media
media   media   robot   robot   robot   side/   ret    size     status
 ID     type    type      #     slot    face    level  KBytes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
/bin/cat: /tmp/avail_media_sorted_output: No such file or directory

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just the line tail: cannot open `+3' for reading: No such file or directory disappeared from previous error


 

[se7en]

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[CRZ · Accepted solution]

Check the following TechNote for more info:

Installation of the NetBackup master or media server on Linux fails with error: "tail: cannot open '+2' for reading" 
 http://support.veritas.com/docs/302582

You will need to find ALL of the commands (tail, sort, &c.) in the script and change them, or change your environment variable _POSIX2_VERSION as described in the TechNote.

[Marianne]

About: /bin/cat: /tmp/avail_media_sorted_output: No such file or directory
Is your TMPDIR variable set to /tmp? NetBackup needs to use it as working directory for temp files.

[CRZ]

You say you changed the environment variable - could you please confirm that that did get the script working again?

(Also, as much as I hate seeing people do this here on Connect, I'd really appreciate if you could mark my reply as the solution if that DID fix it...so we can shut down this discussion.)

[chrislogo]

Set the variable and  added  to below file 

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[root@kodiak ~]# cat .bashrc

# .bashrc

# User specific aliases and functions

alias rm='rm -i'

alias cp='cp -i'

alias mv='mv -i'

export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209

# Source global definitions

if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then

        . /etc/bashrc

fi

[root@kodiak ~]#
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