On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:43:30AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On 3 Nov 2003 at 8:37am, Jim Summers wrote
> 
> > ===========
> > amrestore: could not open /dev/nst0: Permission denied
> 
> What does 'ls -l /dev/nst0' say?  And what user and group runs amanda on 
> the server?


amrecover, in my hands, has a "root user" check at startup.
Thus, I assume that Jim was running amrecover as root.

Does amreocover su to another user before calling amrestore?
If not, would local permissions come into play?

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