Ditto. TSm development isn't what it used to be.

On 5/26/11, Thomas Denier <Thomas.Denier AT jeffersonhospital DOT org> wrote:
> -----David E Ehresman wrote: -----
>
>>My guess is there is a problem talking to the library controller.  I
>>would try setting the library path offline and then online.
>
> Setting the library path offline and online didn't help. Deleting
> and recreating the library path also didn't help. At that point I
> decided to make sure the itdt test was still working. I ran that
> test from my personal Linux account, and it failed with a message
> indicating a permissions problem. I rapidly discovered that the
> /dev/IBMtape0 special file allowed read and write access for owner
> and group, and that neither my personal account nor the one used
> to run the TSM server code was the owning user or belonged to the
> owning group. I presume that the co-worker who ran itdt
> successfully yesterday was logged on as root at the time. Once
> the permissions were fixed I had no trouble defining the path to
> the drive. We are still trying to figure out how to ensure that
> the permissions will be correct after a reboot.
>
> If the TSM developers had written decent error reporting code
> I could have diagnosed the problem in two minutes rather than
> two days.

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