On Friday 30 August 2002 17:59, Chris Bourne wrote:
>Hello,
>      I believe I am getting closer to getting this to work. I
> believe I need a tape0-slot file. Can somone please tell me what
> the syntax of this file is to be or is it generated by amanda and
> how?? When I labeled my tapes I used the command...
>
>bash-2.05$/usr/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 DailySet101
>bash-2.05$/usr/sbin/amlabel DailySet1 DailySet102
>
>......and so on. Is this correct or do I need to specify a slot #
> as well.
>
>
>So these are the errors for the following commands..
>
>bash-2.05$ /usr/sbin/amtape DailySet1 label DailySet101
>amtape: scanning for tape with label DailySet101
>amtape: could not get changer info: badly formed result from
> changer: "chg-scsi: unable to open current slot file
> (/etc/amanda/DailySet1/tape0-slot)"
>
>
>bash-2.05$ /usr/lib/amanda/chg-scsi -info
>chg-scsi: unable to open current slot file
> (/etc/amanda/DailySet1/tape0-slot) 0 8 1 0
>
>Thanks,
>Chris

Check your amanda.conf file tos ee where the tape-0-slot files is 
supposed to live, then just 'touch' it.  I think amanda will do the 
rest for you.

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