We are having problems with disaster recovery backup testing. This was always painful in 8.0 and Lawson is little or no help.

We are not able to get a clean shutdown of the whole server to take the backup. I've attached the script they are using to try shutdown and restart.

Are there any threads on this? A Lawson community search seems to indicate that we are not alone with this issue.

thanks,

Brad

That looks somewhat familiar to me but it would be really nice if you could specify:
UNIX, Windows or AIX? If UNIX, which UNIX? (Solaris, HP-UX, etc.). It almost looks like you're trying to run the script in UNIX without being 'root' . I believe you need to be 'root' to run that shutdown script.

Try running that script with 'root' permissions - does the script work correctly to shut down everything?

Just for your info, the method that we use to make certain that Lawson is totally down is,
- First run script to shut down web server. Web server is WebSphere, script has to run as 'root'.
- 2nd, run script to shut down LSF9 WebSphere applications. Script has to run as 'root'.
- Thirdly, run 'stoplaw' command. User "lawson" can do this.

Hope that this helps.