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
> >
> >
> >
