On Mon, 19 May 2003 at 2:40pm, Paul Barton wrote

> amrestore: could not open /dev/tape: Permission denied
> amidxtaped: time 0.005: amrestore terminated normally with status: 2
> amidxtaped: time 0.005: rewinding tape ...
> amidxtaped: time 0.005: tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/tape: Permission denied
> amidxtaped: time 0.005: pid 16792 finish time Mon May 19 13:50:19 2003
> 
> I tried running amrestore with the 6 arguments listed above on the tape
> server (data1) as user amanda - it worked fine. Any ideas why I would be
> getting Permission denied errors on /dev/tape with amidxtaped?

You don't mention the OS on the tape server, but here's a guess.  With 
xinetd, e.g., only the primary group permissions are used unless you 
specify "groups = yes" in the relevant service config file.  So, if you 
give the amanda user access to whatever /dev/tape points to via a 
secondary group permission, this may not get applied to amidxtaped when it 
gets run via xinetd.

If that's not it, we'll need more info on the server side OS/config.

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