On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Vectorz Sigma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
The device should have the group 'disk' (or equivalent), and amandabackup should be in that group. However, it's definitely a bug to not report that as "permission denied", so I'll take a look. Thanks for chasing this down. Dustin -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
