Look on page 39 and 40 of the TDP for Oracle for UNIX (Second Edition April 2001). It says that the TDPO_OPTFILE must be specified in the allocate channel.
Take a look at what has to be done to the script. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: Argeropoulos, Bonnie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 5:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RMAN Hello, Running AIX 4.1.1 Server 4.1.1 Oracle 8.1.7 I'm trying to allocate a channel in rman and getting the following error....has anyone seen this before? Thanks for your help.... Bonnie Argeropoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recovery Manager: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production RMAN-06005: connected to target database: LAWPRD (DBID=2516819323) RMAN-06009: using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog RMAN> allocate channel t1 type 'sbt_tape' ; RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00558: error encountered while parsing input commands RMAN-01005: syntax error: found "identifier": expecting one of: "for" RMAN-01008: the bad identifier was: t1 RMAN-01007: at line 1 column 18 file: standard input
