Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Tape backup fails. E-Smith 4.11

2001-04-26 Thread Charlie Brady
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Lionel Lauer wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:06:08 -0400 (EDT), Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Lionel Lauer wrote: buffer: cannot open output file: Read-only file system filename: /dev/nst0 You are sure that the tape is not

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Tape backup fails. E-Smith 4.11

2001-04-26 Thread Lionel Lauer
Update: I've just tried SSHing into the server with the problem, running the backup manually (/sbin/e-smith/backup) it worked! Now I'm really confused. I'll see if tonights cron job works okay, if so, I'll start looking for hardware problems. -- W . | ,. w , Some people are

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Tape backup fails. E-Smith 4.11

2001-04-26 Thread Lionel Lauer
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:06:08 -0400 (EDT), Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Lionel Lauer wrote: buffer: cannot open output file: Read-only file system filename: /dev/nst0 You are sure that the tape is not write-protected? Absolutely - that was the first thing I

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Tape backup fails. E-Smith 4.11

2001-04-26 Thread Lionel Lauer
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:28:24 -0400 (EDT), Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Absolutely - that was the first thing I checked. I also tried erasing a tape to ensure that there was no garbage on it that might be confusing the issue. Also, a 'tar -cvf /dev/nst0 /etc', followed by a 'tar -xvf

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Tape backup fails. E-Smith 4.11

2001-04-26 Thread Lionel Lauer
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:56:37 -0400 (EDT), Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Lionel Lauer wrote: All SMP kernels have had trouble with ppp. You have upgraded to the latest ppp RPM? The system is a dual-CPU motherboard with only one CPU, so I tweaked lilo to only

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Tape backup fails. E-Smith 4.11

2001-04-26 Thread Charlie Brady
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Lionel Lauer wrote: buffer: cannot open output file: Read-only file system filename: /dev/nst0 You are sure that the tape is not write-protected? Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-smith.org (development) http://www.e-smith.com