>The other thing I question is whether changes to the amanda code for cygwin has ever been extended to include the server pieces. >The primary developer of those changes ?Doug Kingston?, was only intent on getting an amanda cygwin client, not a server. I do not recall seeing > any reports of an amanda cygwin server. > >Some of the necessary changes could include the test for "root". >If the code doesn't test for root by name, but instead by uid, then the numerical test is often something like: > > if ( getuid() != 0 ) error > >and as unix's root has a uid of 0, this can be simplified to: > > if ( getuid() ) error > >Both would fail if root == SYSTEM, ie uid 18. > >This is typical of changes needed for amanda cygwin clients and may not have been extended to the server code as that was not Doug's purpose.
Well i have "fooled" amcheck into thinking he is uid 0 (changing /etc/passwd uid field for user Administrator) and no more setuid-root messages are shown (so, your getuid and server parts not patched related guess appears to be extremely true :-), but taper behaves (as expected) exactly the same way as it did: driver: FATAL reading result from taper: Software caused connection abort As stated below amtape and amlabel work fine, so IMHO this shouldn't be a permissions problem. ¿ There's some way to get a more verbose "why" from "taper" or "driver"? >BTW have you tried accessing your tape drive with other amanda and/or cygwin commands? Can you tar directly to and from your tapedrive without amanda? I do not use a real tapedrive/robot with amanda, and I doubt cygwin has the ability to access directly to the devices (there's no /dev fs anyway) >Can amtape and amlabel access your drive and changer script? Yep, I have used amlabel for label perfectly the virtual (on disk) tapes and amtape seems to work perfectly. I have followed the procedure on http://www.servitux.org/view.php/page/amanda (in Spanish sorry, but conf files and commands are understable ;-) Thx
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