RE: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles
Hi Paul... I tried that, and I got bash:/root/.bashrc:Permission denied -Original Message- From: Bort, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:50 PM To: 'Rebecca Pakish'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles In the same directory as amanda.conf, try this: su -c amanda touch tapetype This will create a blank tapetype file that amanda can store info about tapes in. -Original Message- From: Rebecca Pakish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles Hi all... Thank you for all of your help on the ./tapetype issue. I learned a lot about my drive from the Seagate site (they have excellent documentation as far as I'm concerned) got my hardware compression turned off. Been working on the amanda.conf file, feel like I'm prepared to label my first tape and dump something! Again, running RH 7.1 on a Dell 333 with a SCSI Seagate external and just a 90mm tape for starters. (Had to download the mt command from the rpm site, but everything seems to be effectively communicating) In amanda.conf: labelstr ^testtape[0-9][0-9] (**amanda.conf is in /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup**) What's happening... $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label testape01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't write tapelist: Permission denied And then I looked for the file called tapelist that the amlabel man page said it would write to, and I couldn't find it to change it's permissions. When I went back to re-execute the amlabel command so I could write down the error, this is what happens: $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root.bashrc: Permission denied rewinding, reading label testtape01 rewinding, writing label testtape01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't write tapelist: Permission denied Which, I have to admit, for a girl who just learned how to tar on Friday and rpm yesterday, I'm pretty jacked to see that it read the label as testtape01 that second time! But of course, it still isn't right. oops. Can someone please help point me in the right direction? Thanks!! Rebecca
RE: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles
I compiled amanda...tried rpm but something strange happened. (Can't remember what now) Actually when I checked my /etc/passwd file $HOME for amanda was set to /var/lib/amanda, so I changed it to /home/amanda. The entry in passwd now looks like this: amanda:x:33:6:Amanda user:/home/amanda:/bin/bash I had already changed the ownership on the amanda directory...in fact /usr/local/etc shows ownership to amanda and group ownership disk (group 6, to which amanda belongs) Actually I ran an $su amanda -c touch tapetype which did create a tapetype file in my /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup dir. Then I was able to run my $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied rewinding, reading label testtape01 rewinding, writing label testtape01, checking label, done. I now have a tapelist file in my /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup file...so it appears to have worked...but how do I get rid of this bash permission denied message??? -Original Message- From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:03 PM To: Rebecca Pakish Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 at 2:46pm, Rebecca Pakish wrote Been working on the amanda.conf file, feel like I'm prepared to label my first tape and dump something! Again, running RH 7.1 on a Dell 333 with a SCSI Seagate external and just a 90mm tape for starters. (Had to download the mt command from the rpm site, but everything seems to be effectively communicating) Did you compile amanda or install the RPM? In amanda.conf: labelstr ^testtape[0-9][0-9] (**amanda.conf is in /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup**) What's happening... $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied This says that the $HOME of the user amanda specified in /etc/passwd is /root, but the amanda user does not have read access to that directory. I would fix this by giving amanda a different $HOME (like /home/amanda). rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label testape01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't write tapelist: Permission denied The file 'tapelist' is created after the first successful amlabel, which is why you don't have one yet. It lives in the same directory as the amanda.conf and disklist for the configuration -- in this case /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup. So, amanda must not have write permissions in that directory. The easiest way to fix that would be 'chown -R amanda /usr/local/etc/amanda', which will give the user amanda ownership of /usr/local/etc/amanda and all the files and directories inside it. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
RE: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 at 10:49am, Rebecca Pakish wrote $su amanda -c touch tapetype which did create a tapetype file in my /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup dir. Then I was able to run my $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied rewinding, reading label testtape01 rewinding, writing label testtape01, checking label, done. I now have a tapelist file in my /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup file...so it appears to have worked...but how do I get rid of this bash permission denied message??? OK, I think I see what's going on. You're running that su as root, right? Well, it's not giving amanda (the user) its own environment, i.e. $HOME is still set to /root (root's home). So, the user amanda, in starting its shell to run the command, tries to parse $HOME/.bashrc, and can't, because it doesn't have permission. Try this: su - amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 This will give amanda its environment. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
RE: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles
Sorry about the preceeding message, I hit the wrong button. On 29 Aug 2001, at 10:29, Rebecca Pakish wrote: Hi Paul... I tried that, and I got bash:/root/.bashrc:Permission denied This probably means that the home directory of the amanda user is /root, where he has no read/write permission. Try to change to another (/home/amanda for instance) in /etc/passwd. Don't forget to create the directory if it doesn't exist and set the permission correctly. As for the couldn't write tapelist: Permission denied message, it probably is also a permission problem : be sure that the directory /usr/local/etc/amanda and all the subdirectories belong to amanda You can do a chown -R amanda amanda as root in the directory /usr/local/etc to be sure. Raoul -Original Message- From: Bort, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:50 PM To: 'Rebecca Pakish'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles In the same directory as amanda.conf, try this: su -c amanda touch tapetype This will create a blank tapetype file that amanda can store info about tapes in. -Original Message- From: Rebecca Pakish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles [snip] What's happening... $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label testape01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't write tapelist: Permission denied
RE: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles
On 29 Aug 2001, at 10:29, Rebecca Pakish wrote: Hi Paul... I tried that, and I got bash:/root/.bashrc:Permission denied -Original Message- From: Bort, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:50 PM To: 'Rebecca Pakish'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles In the same directory as amanda.conf, try this: su -c amanda touch tapetype This will create a blank tapetype file that amanda can store info about tapes in. -Original Message- From: Rebecca Pakish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles Hi all... Thank you for all of your help on the ./tapetype issue. I learned a lot about my drive from the Seagate site (they have excellent documentation as far as I'm concerned) got my hardware compression turned off. Been working on the amanda.conf file, feel like I'm prepared to label my first tape and dump something! Again, running RH 7.1 on a Dell 333 with a SCSI Seagate external and just a 90mm tape for starters. (Had to download the mt command from the rpm site, but everything seems to be effectively communicating) In amanda.conf: labelstr ^testtape[0-9][0-9] (**amanda.conf is in /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup**) What's happening... $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label testape01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't write tapelist: Permission denied And then I looked for the file called tapelist that the amlabel man page said it would write to, and I couldn't find it to change it's permissions. When I went back to re-execute the amlabel command so I could write down the error, this is what happens: $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root.bashrc: Permission denied rewinding, reading label testtape01 rewinding, writing label testtape01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't write tapelist: Permission denied Which, I have to admit, for a girl who just learned how to tar on Friday and rpm yesterday, I'm pretty jacked to see that it read the label as testtape01 that second time! But of course, it still isn't right. oops. Can someone please help point me in the right direction? Thanks!! Rebecca
RE: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles
In the same directory as amanda.conf, try this: su -c amanda touch tapetype This will create a blank tapetype file that amanda can store info about tapes in. -Original Message- From: Rebecca Pakish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles Hi all... Thank you for all of your help on the ./tapetype issue. I learned a lot about my drive from the Seagate site (they have excellent documentation as far as I'm concerned) got my hardware compression turned off. Been working on the amanda.conf file, feel like I'm prepared to label my first tape and dump something! Again, running RH 7.1 on a Dell 333 with a SCSI Seagate external and just a 90mm tape for starters. (Had to download the mt command from the rpm site, but everything seems to be effectively communicating) In amanda.conf: labelstr ^testtape[0-9][0-9] (**amanda.conf is in /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup**) What's happening... $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label testape01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't write tapelist: Permission denied And then I looked for the file called tapelist that the amlabel man page said it would write to, and I couldn't find it to change it's permissions. When I went back to re-execute the amlabel command so I could write down the error, this is what happens: $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root.bashrc: Permission denied rewinding, reading label testtape01 rewinding, writing label testtape01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't write tapelist: Permission denied Which, I have to admit, for a girl who just learned how to tar on Friday and rpm yesterday, I'm pretty jacked to see that it read the label as testtape01 that second time! But of course, it still isn't right. oops. Can someone please help point me in the right direction? Thanks!! Rebecca
Re: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 at 2:46pm, Rebecca Pakish wrote Been working on the amanda.conf file, feel like I'm prepared to label my first tape and dump something! Again, running RH 7.1 on a Dell 333 with a SCSI Seagate external and just a 90mm tape for starters. (Had to download the mt command from the rpm site, but everything seems to be effectively communicating) Did you compile amanda or install the RPM? In amanda.conf: labelstr ^testtape[0-9][0-9] (**amanda.conf is in /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup**) What's happening... $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied This says that the $HOME of the user amanda specified in /etc/passwd is /root, but the amanda user does not have read access to that directory. I would fix this by giving amanda a different $HOME (like /home/amanda). rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label testape01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't write tapelist: Permission denied The file 'tapelist' is created after the first successful amlabel, which is why you don't have one yet. It lives in the same directory as the amanda.conf and disklist for the configuration -- in this case /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup. So, amanda must not have write permissions in that directory. The easiest way to fix that would be 'chown -R amanda /usr/local/etc/amanda', which will give the user amanda ownership of /usr/local/etc/amanda and all the files and directories inside it. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
RE: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles
I'm not sure why this posted again...sorry everyone...I've already had some responses I'm going to look into tomorrow. :) -Original Message- From: Rebecca Pakish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 2:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Still a newbie...but getting somewhere...amlabel troubles Hi all... Thank you for all of your help on the ./tapetype issue. I learned a lot about my drive from the Seagate site (they have excellent documentation as far as I'm concerned) got my hardware compression turned off. Been working on the amanda.conf file, feel like I'm prepared to label my first tape and dump something! Again, running RH 7.1 on a Dell 333 with a SCSI Seagate external and just a 90mm tape for starters. (Had to download the mt command from the rpm site, but everything seems to be effectively communicating) In amanda.conf: labelstr ^testtape[0-9][0-9] (**amanda.conf is in /usr/local/etc/amanda/backup**) What's happening... $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied rewinding, reading label, not an amanda tape rewinding, writing label testape01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't write tapelist: Permission denied And then I looked for the file called tapelist that the amlabel man page said it would write to, and I couldn't find it to change it's permissions. When I went back to re-execute the amlabel command so I could write down the error, this is what happens: $su amanda -c amlabel backup testtape01 bash: /root.bashrc: Permission denied rewinding, reading label testtape01 rewinding, writing label testtape01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't write tapelist: Permission denied Which, I have to admit, for a girl who just learned how to tar on Friday and rpm yesterday, I'm pretty jacked to see that it read the label as testtape01 that second time! But of course, it still isn't right. oops. Can someone please help point me in the right direction? Thanks!! Rebecca
