Hi, Erik,

on Dienstag, 17. Februar 2004 at 11:21 you wrote to amanda-users:

EPO> I am installing amanda for the first time and have problems labeling tapes 
for
EPO> it. I get the error message:

EPO> amlabel: could not load tapelist "/etc/amanda/normal/tapelist"

Do you really want to keep your config-files in /etc/amanda?
The default points to /usr/local/etc/amanda, for example.

But this is not your problem, I assume.

EPO> This seems strange since it is the first tape I try to label and therefore
EPO> there is no tapelist file and there should not be one. In fact the
EPO> documentation says that it will be generated by amlabel and it should not 
be
EPO> modified by the user/administrator. The command I issue from the amanda 
user is:

EPO> amlabel /usr/sbin/amlabel normal normal00

EPO> and it doesn't help to use the force flag. What am I doing wrong?

Nothing. Just try a

touch /etc/amanda/normal/tapelist

and amlabel again.
-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at