On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:58, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>I have labeled the tapes before during my tests without problems.
> Now, when preparing amanda for production I relabeled the tapes
> (after having duly removed them from the repository by amrmtape)
> and changed the directory into which the tapelist would go. Then
> amanda wouldn't label the tapes. The command used was:
>
>[root@epo full]# su amanda -c "amlabel -f full full01"
>rewinding, reading label full01
>rewinding, writing label full01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't
> write tapelist: Permission denied
>
I believe I got bit on that not too long ago.  Did you first 'touch' 
the tapelist?  amlabel can modify it, but not create it.

>Well, I thought it was permissions for the file tapelist and changed
>that to full permission, but still got the same error.
>
>I then saw syslog had the following message:
>
>Jan 22 21:13:39 epo su(pam_unix)[9298]: session opened for user
> amanda by erik(uid=0)
>Jan 22 21:13:39 epo su[9298]: Warning!  Could not relabel /dev/pts/1
>with user_u:object_r:devpts_t, not relabeling.Operation not
> permitted Jan 22 21:13:39 epo su(pam_unix)[9298]: session closed
> for user amanda
>
>I have no idea whatsoever what this is all about. I would be
> grateful if someone would explain to me what the heck it is and how
> I can satisfy amlabel?

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