Hi Again
I have nuked the default binary (rpm within SuSE Yast2 and installaed
and run source configuration amanda 2.4.4.

Thus I have configured amanda.conf ,disklist and tapelist which is
currently empty as I had to create it and then run the following command
as amanda.

myserver:/local/sw/amanda # su amanda -c
"/local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 DailySet101"
rewinding
amlabel: tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/nst0: Permission denied

I have a DDS-4 tape which I am trying to label.

myserver:/local/sw/amanda/bckup/sbin # ls -al
total 677
drwxr-xr-x  2 amanda disk    616 Apr 18 14:25 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 amanda disk    168 Apr 18 13:30 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 amanda disk  60477 Apr 18 14:25 amadmin
-rwxr-x---  1 amanda disk  86322 Apr 18 14:25 amcheck
-rwxr-xr-x  1 amanda disk   1820 Apr 18 14:25 amcheckdb

I have also tried having a look at debugging dir /tmp/amanda-dbg
but the error msg when I try to less as Root or amanda is no file or
directory. So I am unable to view the logs generated.

amanda@myserver:/tmp/amanda-dbg> ls -al
total 86
drwx--S---   2 amanda users 1056 Apr 18 14:42 .
drwxrwxrwt  15 root   root   728 Apr 18 14:49 ..
-rw-------   1 amanda users  261 Apr 16 15:14
amcheck.20050416151410.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  261 Apr 16 15:15
amcheck.20050416151552.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  256 Apr 16 15:20
amcheck.20050416152039.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  261 Apr 16 15:26
amcheck.20050416152620.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  261 Apr 16 15:37
amcheck.20050416153725.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  233 Apr 18 13:10
amcheck.20050418131041.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  263 Apr 18 13:37
amcheck.20050418133757.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  233 Apr 18 13:38
amcheck.20050418133808.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  256 Apr 18 13:41
amcheck.20050418134113.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  233 Apr 18 13:41
amcheck.20050418134119.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  256 Apr 18 14:40
amcheck.20050418144036.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  256 Apr 18 14:42
amcheck.20050418144230.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  233 Apr 18 14:42
amcheck.20050418144243.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  216 Apr 18 14:30
amlabel.20050418143015.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  216 Apr 18 14:30
amlabel.20050418143043.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  207 Apr 18 14:31
amlabel.20050418143125.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  198 Apr 18 14:33
amlabel.20050418143312.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  198 Apr 18 14:36
amlabel.20050418143611.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  198 Apr 18 14:36
amlabel.20050418143619.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  198 Apr 18 14:36
amlabel.20050418143649.debug
-rw-------   1 amanda users  198 Apr 18 14:39
amlabel.20050418143950.debug
amanda@myserver:/tmp/amanda-dbg>

Cheers
Chuck

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