Hi John, /dev/nst0 does have the permissions set as root:disk rw-rw----
with amanda (=user running amidxtaped) member of group disk. The "groups = yes" xinetd directive will do the trick, I think! I should have double-checked the man-pages of xinetd! As the backup is running right now I can not verify this but I will if it's finished. Thank you very much for the help! Regards, Lieven John R. Jackson writes: >> Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host daeserver.dae.be. > > What does "ls -lL /dev/nst0" on daeserver.dae.be say? > > How did you set up amidxtaped to run on daeserver.dae.be? If you're > using xinetd, did you put "groups = yes" in the config file so the > Amanda user was put in all the groups it is a member of? > >> Lieven > > John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
