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
slot

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.556 seconds, 0 problems found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3)

same if I try amtape. I get the 'could not determine current slot'
error.

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, 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 sg2
> > lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           36 Feb 10 13:45 /dev/sg2 ->
> > scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun1/generic
> > 
> > [root@ruby lun1]# ls -l
> > total 0
> > crw-rw----    1 root     root      21,   2 Dec 31  1969 generic
> 
> Well, the mod date seems weird, in that it is set to the UNIX epoch, but
> I guess that doesn't really matter.  It still doesn't appear that
> amanda's group 'disk' would have access to this file, but that may be an
> affect of your particular system (what OS is this?).  Your success with
> mtx below means that for whatever reason, the permissions seem to be OK.
> 
> > mtx now responds correctly for user 'amanda'
> > 
> > [root@ruby amanda-2.4.3]# su amanda -c "mtx status"
> >   Storage Changer /dev/changer:1 Drives, 6 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
> > Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded)
> >       Storage Element 1:Empty
> >       Storage Element 2:Full 
> >       Storage Element 3:Full 
> >       Storage Element 4:Full 
> >       Storage Element 5:Full 
> >       Storage Element 6:Full 
> > 
> > Do you see anything weird about this or am I correct in assuming this
> > should be ok?
> 
> This does indeed look like mtx succeeded.  The next step would be to
> ensure that amanda can execute the changer functions via her generic
> commands, like 'eject' or 'slot X'.  Something like
> 
> # su amanda -c amtape <config> slot 1
> 
> If that works, then you're all set.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric