I've been struggling trying to get Amanda running on a FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE box with a HP SureStore 12000E 6-tape DAT changer for what seems like an eternity now. I first tried installing via the FreeBSD ports collection. That was version 2-4-2p2. I could not get any of the changer scripts that built to work. Alas, chg-scsi was not built because of incomplete CAM porting, etc. I surmised chg-scsi would work if only I could get it built. I posted my questions to the FreeBSD Questions list with very little success. The next day I posted my questions to this list and got what seemed like good advice: Forget the FreeBSD ports collection, download the latest 2.5.0 via CVS and build the package yourself. Then, right before a 'gmake install', just copy over the newly created chg-scsi to the appropriate location and you're good to go. Well, sort of. Turns out I can run chg-scsi as root (I do get an error telling me I'm not running as user operator), but I can not run chg-scsi as operator. I get permission denied errors. Here's the log: Script started on Mon Jun 4 03:04:37 2001 bash-2.05# amcheck -s love Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- ERROR: running as user "root" instead of "operator" Holding disk /disk2: 11843263 KB disk space available, using 11833023 KB changer: got exit: 0 str: 1 6 1 1 changer: got exit: 0 str: 1 /dev/nrsa0 amcheck-server: slot 1: date X label love01 (first labelstr match) NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Tape love01 label ok Server check took 38.616 seconds (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.0) bash-2.05# su -m operator -c 'whoami' operator bash-2.05# su -m operator -c 'amcheck -s love' Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /disk2: 11843263 KB disk space available, using 11833023 KB changer: got exit: 2 str: chg-scsi: open: 0:3:1: Permission denied amcheck-server: could not get changer info: open: 0:3:1: Permission denied could not get changer info: open: 0:3:1: Permission denied amcheck-server: pid 83843 finish time Mon Jun 4 03:06:05 2001 (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.0) bash-2.05# chio status slot 0: <ACCESS> slot 1: <ACCESS,FULL> slot 2: <ACCESS,FULL> slot 3: <ACCESS,FULL> slot 4: <ACCESS,FULL> slot 5: <ACCESS,FULL> drive 0: <ACCESS,FULL> bash-2.05# su -m operator -c 'chio status' chio: /dev/ch0: open: Permission denied bash-2.05# ls -al /dev/ch0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 17, 0 Jun 4 03:07 /dev/ch0 bash-2.05# chown operator.operator /dev/ch0 bash-2.05# ls -al /dev/ch0 crw-r----- 1 operator operator 17, 0 Jun 4 03:07 /dev/ch0 bash-2.05# su -m operator -c 'chio status' slot 0: <ACCESS> slot 1: <ACCESS,FULL> slot 2: <ACCESS,FULL> slot 3: <ACCESS,FULL> slot 4: <ACCESS,FULL> slot 5: <ACCESS,FULL> drive 0: <ACCESS,FULL> bash-2.05# exit Script done on Mon Jun 4 03:09:43 2001 I eventually removed 2.4.2-p entirely and built and installed the entire 2.5.0 version from scratch via: mkdir /usr/home/operator chown operator.operator /usr/home/operator cd /usr/home/operator su -m operator -c 'cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda login' <RETURN> su -m operator -c 'cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda co amanda' su -m operator -c 'cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/amanda logout' su -m operator -c 'cd amanda' su -m operator -c './autogen' su -m operator -c './configure --with-user=operator --with-group=operator --with-smbclient' su -m operator -c 'gmake' su root make install Still get the exact same results. Notice that once I chown'd /dev/ch0 to operator.operator I was able to run 'chio -status' without problems (is this what I should have done?), but chg-scsi still didn't work. That makes me wonder if this problem is FreeBSD-related. I tried changing references of "0:3:1" to "/dev/ch0" but that didn't help. I tried changing ownership and permissions of /dev/ch0, /dev/nrsa0, /dev/sa0, /bin/chio/, /usr/local/libexec/amcheck, etc., all to no avail. I need to know what to change to allow user operator to run amcheck, etc. Or should I just run with user root? Isn't that a security no-no? Please, please help me. I'm desperate (and oh so close)!!! Sean Noonan
