I downgraded to Amanda 2.5.2p1 and it gave me a better clue when running amlabel. Basically it said /dev/nst0 = permission denied. I've been running the amlabel command as amandabackup but didn't realize you need to give permissions to the /dev/nst0 device (which was 750 perms and owned by root:root). I chmod'd to 777 to test and that fixed the problem.
Is it a known deal that we're supposed to change permission on the tape dev name? On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > The mystery deepens. > > Can you run 'amlabel' under strace or truss or your local equivalent? > I'd like to know what syscall is returning EBADFD (Bad file > descriptor). Also, please remind me what version of Amanda you're > running. > > You can send the strace output to me privately for analysis if you'd > like, rather than spamming the list (it will be *large*) > > Dustin >
