Amanda-Users

Re: Permissin denied

2003-02-21 10:18:57
Subject: Re: Permissin denied
From: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
To: "Madhvi Gokool" <madhvin AT yahoo DOT com>, <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:54:45 -0500
On Fri February 21 2003 02:00, Madhvi Gokool wrote:
>Hello
>After changing the group of the user amanda to disk , when I run
> amcheck , I ams till getiing the
>Amanda Tape Server Host Check
>-----------------------------
>ERROR: /dev/nst0: Permission denied
>       (expecting a new tape)
>NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
>Server check took 0.000 seconds
>
>The permissions on the tape device are as follows : -
>
>[[amanda@backup sbin]$ ls -ali /dev/nst0
> 177632 crw-rw-r--    1 root     disk       9, 128 Mar 24  2001
> /dev/nst0
>
>Are there any otehr solutions ???
>
What happens if you go back to the parent directory of the amanda 
build, and as root "chown -R amanda:disk amanda-version-builddate"
and then cd into the dir and do a make install? All as root, then 
become amanda again and run amcheck /config/?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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