I keep getting the following error when running amrecover (as root) from an amanda client (jaguar): Extracting files using tape drive /dev/tape on host data1.mydomain.com. The following tapes are nee
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 15:21:00 -0400 (EDT)
You don't mention the OS on the tape server, but here's a guess. With xinetd, e.g., only the primary group permissions are used unless you specify "groups = yes" in the relevant service config file.
Running remote? Maybe root doesn't retain root rights across net? -- Jon H. LaBadie jon AT jgcomp DOT com JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (
The amanda tape server is running Redhat 7.1. You were correct - xinetd was the problem. I added the line groups = users to /etc/xinetd.d/amidxtape and it worked fine. Thank you for your prompt respo