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AIX 4.3.3 / Compress Problem
Hello all! I've a great problem and does not find the reason for it. So I hope anybody have good ideas to find the solution.
Problem: I'm sysadmin for 7 RS6000 Servers (7044/170) running with AIX 4.3.3 and a Oracle 7 Database (I know - OLD! But there is no way to upgrade the Software. This solution is for only 2 years!). Now my company bought "new" (refurbished) Servers with maintenance (7028/6C1). I've installed AIX 4.3.3 and the Oracle DB. All works fine and without any problems. Only the backupscript have Problems at one line.
The line is: "find /oradata/dbs0/* -prune -print | cpio -oB | compress > /dev/rmt0"
This works fine on the old Servers and works fine without the COMPRESS command.
Compress and uncompress works in a directory (e.g. compress /oradata/dbs0/*) without errors, but in the combination with rmt0 I get always the error:
# find /oradata/dbs0/* -prune -print | cpio -oB | compress > /dev/rmt0
# 14040 blocks
A system call received a parameter that is not valid
#
Questions: Where is the system call? What is the reason for it?

I've checked all smit settings... there is no difference to the old servers. Backup to rmt0 works - but only without compress.
Any ideas? Thanks a lot
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SYSADMIN(1)						      General Commands Manual						       SYSADMIN(1)

NAME

       sysadmin  - responsible for everything imaginable that may or may not have to do with the system you're using.  Contraction of "system" and
       "administrator"

SYNOPSIS

       sysadmin [-ab] [-cd] [-ef] etc......

DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

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	      the standard input and route user tasks appropriately.

       -cd    causes sysadmin to become caffeine-deprived, resulting in system slowdowns.

       -b     causes  the sysadmin to function normally while augmenting the standard input with beer(5).  Can be used with the -t option as well,
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       -Cfile Specify an alternate configuration file (sysadmin.cf is the standard).

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       -fFullname
	      Set the full name of the sysadmin.

       -Bf    Create the sysadmin.cf configuration freeze file.

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NOTES

       The -t option should not be used with a version of sysadmin which is not capable of parsing tobacco input.   Though  the  functionality	of
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