Re: core dump of chg-scsi under Solaris 9

2002-08-11 Thread Sven Kirmess
Gene Heskett wrote: I take it you unpacked, made, and installed amanda as root. Generally speaking, thats a no-no. Yes I did. But that's only for a quick test... It should not be relevant who builds the code (only for security considerations). (Or am I wrong)? If a segfault occoures the

Re: core dump of chg-scsi under Solaris 9

2002-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 11 August 2002 09:14, Sven Kirmess wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I take it you unpacked, made, and installed amanda as root. Generally speaking, thats a no-no. Yes I did. But that's only for a quick test... It should not be relevant It's extremely revelant. who builds the code (only

Re: core dump of chg-scsi under Solaris 9

2002-08-11 Thread Sven Kirmess
Thanks for all the help. The problem goes away as soon as I used the following device (in changer.conf). changerdev /dev/scsi/changer/c1t5d1 This device is created by sgen and not by st. I'll write a summary with what I did as soon as I got amanda completely up and running. Sven

core dump of chg-scsi under Solaris 9

2002-08-10 Thread Sven Kirmess
I have a very strange problem. chg-scsi (2.4.2p2) does work if it is called as root. When I call it as user amanda it dumpes core. By comparing two truss files I found that there is a problem with the permissions of the device file: open64(/dev/rmt/1mn, O_RDWR|O_NDELAY) = 4 ioctl(4,

Re: core dump of chg-scsi under Solaris 9

2002-08-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 10 August 2002 20:46, Sven Kirmess wrote: I have a very strange problem. chg-scsi (2.4.2p2) does work if it is called as root. When I call it as user amanda it dumpes core. By comparing two truss files I found that there is a problem with the permissions of the device file: