Thanks for the quick reply. The backuppc user uses /bin/sh not bash. sh is
a symbolic link to /bin/dash it looks like. Not sure if this helps or not.
Jeff
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Holger Parplies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jeff Rippy wrote on 2008-07-31 06:58:46 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] archive
> problem]:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a Ubuntu 8.04 and BackupPC 3.x.x setup with an LTO-1 drive.
> > When I go to archive a host I get the following error:
> >
> > Executing: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost
> > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split
> > /usr/bin/par2 geonosis 75 /bin/gzip .gz 0000000 /dev/st0 0 *
> > Xfer PIDs are now 9666
> > Writing tar archive for host geonosis, backup #75 to /dev/st0
> > /bin/sh: cannot create /dev/st0: Permission denied
> > Executing: /bin/sh -c -cf /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate
> > -t -h geonosis -n 75 -s \* . | /bin/gzip >> /dev/st0
> > Error: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate, compress or split
> failed
> > Archive failed: Error: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate,
> > compress or split failed
> >
> > So it looks like one of the scripts is trying to create /dev/st0 if its
> not
> > there,
>
> no, it looks like the shells output redirection is trying to create
> /dev/st0
> after BackupPC_archiveHost had already determined that it exists.
> Strangely,
> my /bin/sh *never* says "cannot create", only "/bin/sh: filename:
> Permission
> denied" - whether the file exists and permissions prevent writing to it or
> it
> does not exist and directory permissions prevent creating it.
>
> So, I don't know what shell you're using and why it claims to be creating
> something that in fact exists, but I'd guess it's simply a permissions
> problem
> on /dev/st0.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
> Holger
>
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