On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 at 8:35pm, Madhvi Gokool wrote

> Got confused between the mount point and the device.
> The amanda user is in the operator group  and did not have permission on the
> device
> I have changed the device /dev/hd5 permission as follows : -
> chmod +or /dev/hda5
> I did not get any errors on the client host when i ran amcheck.
> Results are :-
> [amanda@backup sbin]$  ./amcheck DailySet1
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> ERROR: /dev/nst0: Permission denied
>        (expecting a new tape)
*snip*

> I have inserted a tape containing a backup that can be overwritten .
> Do you think that I need to insert a blank tape for the error on the Tape
> Server host to be resolved.

Nope, that's the same problem.  The amanda user needs rw permission to the 
tape device.

On my Linux systems, making amanda's primary group 'disk' solves all these 
problems.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University