At 05:48 AM 5/28/99 -0700, Nicholas Mickey wrote:
>I ran into a problem, when I tried to abort a backup
>job.   The stdlist is telling me that its releasing
>the locked files, but its been in the que for about 12
>hours.  Is there another way I can abort this job
>without using the abortjob(already tried) command?  I
>really don't want to reboot the box, if I don't have
>to.  I build this job using RoadRunner 4.7.1, and my
>OS is mpe/ix 5.5 patch 6 .

Do you have a tape in the drive?  If not, mount a scratch
tape and place the drive on-line.  Sometimes backup products
will get 'hung' waiting on an interrupt from the tape
drive and my mounting a tape and placing it on-line, it
will get the hardware interrupt and return, completing the
abort....


/jf
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