On Saturday 22 January 2005 17:00, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 09:58:42PM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: >> I have labeled the tapes before during my tests without problems. >> Now, when preparing amanda for production I relabeled the tapes >> (after having duly removed them from the repository by amrmtape) >> and changed the directory into which the tapelist would go. Then >> amanda wouldn't label the tapes. The command used was: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] full]# su amanda -c "amlabel -f full full01" >> rewinding, reading label full01 >> rewinding, writing label full01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't >> write tapelist: Permission denied >> >> Well, I thought it was permissions for the file tapelist and >> changed that to full permission, but still got the same error. >> >> I then saw syslog had the following message: >> >> Jan 22 21:13:39 epo su(pam_unix)[9298]: session opened for user >> amanda by erik(uid=0) >> Jan 22 21:13:39 epo su[9298]: Warning! Could not relabel >> /dev/pts/1 with user_u:object_r:devpts_t, not relabeling.Operation >> not permitted Jan 22 21:13:39 epo su(pam_unix)[9298]: session >> closed for user amanda >> >> I have no idea whatsoever what this is all about. I would be >> grateful if someone would explain to me what the heck it is and >> how I can satisfy amlabel? > >Here is what I wrote to the list in Oct about >someone who seemed to have a similar problem: > >== I forget the details now, and whether it was fixed, but someone >== reported that the tapelist file not only had to exist, but either >== had to be zero length (not even a blank line) or had to have a >== blank line. Sorry I forget which.
This is a permissions problem I believe, possibly brought on by a miss-build of amanda. The tapelist does NOT need any extended permissions to work, mine is currently (ls -l output): -rw------- 1 amanda disk 441 Jan 22 01:00 tapelist But note the user:group it reports. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
