Hi,
My amanda configuration is working nicely, but i have a problem w/ the
barcode scanning stuff. MTX reports all the :VolumeTag=blahblah stuff
indicating that my barcode scanner should be working. the
tape-changer i'm using is chg-zd-mtx. i a line in my
/etc/amana/DailySet1/amanda.conf that
On July 8 2005, Cam wrote:
havereader 1
firstslot 1
lastslot 17
cleanslot -1
offline_before_unload 0
but when i run the /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -info' it reports 4 30 1
You need equals signs (=) between the keywords and values in the
changer.conf file. Like this:
havereader=1
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 10:34 -0600, Cam wrote:
havereader 1
firstslot 1
lastslot 17
cleanslot -1
offline_before_unload 0
but when i run the /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx -info' it reports 4 30 1
Where are you running it from? It'll read the config in the local
directory (IIRC), so you should
All of my issues have been solved and Amanda is running like a champ. I
wanted to thank all of you that worked with me off list to solve the
problem and apologize for posting so many emails at first.
The final solution:
You know how hard it is to RTFM at times.. In the chg-zd-mtx
script itself
Jon -
Perhaps I'm have a blonde moment over this whole configuration issue.
Please excuse my ignorance... and I do appreciate your help. Below see
my comments embedded in your last email..
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:16, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Is there a groups command on your system.
Or maybe the
On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:54, Pete Poggione wrote:
Jon -
Perhaps I'm have a blonde moment over this whole configuration
issue. Please excuse my ignorance... and I do appreciate your
help. Below see my comments embedded in your last email..
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:16, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Eric -
Yeah my brain must have been up my proverbial a**. I actually tried that
first and it didn't work. What I didn't pay attention to was that
/dev/sg2 actually was a sym link to /dev/scsi/host0/ (I'm running
Mandrake 9 and using devfs) So once I changed the group recursively of
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 09:58, Pete Poggione wrote:
If I change the group of /dev/sg2 to disk (the amanda group on my box is
'disk') I still get the same problem:
[root@ruby daily-net]# ls -la /dev/sg2
lr-xr-xr-x1 root disk 36 Feb 10 13:45 /dev/sg2 -
scsi/host0/
Pete,
Could
You and I are thinking the same. As I looked further it seems for some
reason the target was not owned by root but rather by me.(?) changing
the ownership to root eliminated all permission issues. It is now like
this:
[root@ruby dev]# ls -l sg2
lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 36 Feb 10
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 10:49, Pete Poggione wrote:
You and I are thinking the same. As I looked further it seems for some
reason the target was not owned by root but rather by me.(?) changing
the ownership to root eliminated all permission issues. It is now like
this:
[root@ruby dev]# ls -l
in hopes that it would
fix the chg-zd-mtx problem.
The system is Mandrake 9.0
~P
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 11:09, Eric Sproul wrote:
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 10:49, Pete Poggione wrote:
You and I are thinking the same. As I looked further it seems for some
reason the target was not owned by root
.
Incidentally there has been some questions as to the version of Amanda I
am running. It's 2.4.3 now. I upgraded from 2.4.2 in hopes that it would
fix the chg-zd-mtx problem.
The system is Mandrake 9.0
~P
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 11:09, Eric Sproul wrote:
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 10:49
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:25:40PM -0500, Pete Poggione wrote:
amcheck now gives me:
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /var/tmp: 7048472 KB disk space available, that's plenty
amcheck-server: could not get changer info: could not determine current
If this problem is addressed somewhere else in the mail list archives I
apologize in advance. I have not been able to find anything that helps
me solve this problem after 3 days of searching and fiddling...
THE HISTORY:
I have had Amanda configured and running on this server with a single
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:41, Pete Poggione wrote:
I get an error trying to access /dev/sg2 as the Amanda user so I had to
set /sbin/mtx to run as suid root. That seemed to take care of that
issue (if anyone has a better idea let me know)
Pete,
This is not wise-- with suid root, any
amcheck-server: could not get changer info: badly formed result from
changer: /usr/lib/amanda/chg-zd-mtx: line 151: [: : integer expression
expected
You neglected to mention what version of Amanda you're using, but this
was a known problem with chg-zd-mtx a while back. I don't think it was
every
in loadslot() we have code that picks the slot source/destination:
[${firstslot}-${lastslot}])
loadslot=$1
;;
clean)
loadslot=$cleanslot
;;
*)
Get the newest chg.zd.mtx.sh.in from CVS, as it's fixed there.
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Mark L. Chang wrote:
in loadslot() we have code that picks the slot source/destination:
[${firstslot}-${lastslot}])
loadslot=$1
;;
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