On Saturday 22 January 2005 17:00, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 09:58:42PM +0100, 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
>>
>> 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?
>
>Here is what I wrote to the list in Oct about
>someone who seemed to have a similar problem:
>
>== I forget the details now, and whether it was fixed, but someone
>== reported that the tapelist file not only had to exist, but either
>== had to be zero length (not even a blank line) or had to have a
>== blank line. Sorry I forget which.
This is a permissions problem I believe, possibly brought on by a
miss-build of amanda. The tapelist does NOT need any extended
permissions to work, mine is currently (ls -l output):
-rw------- 1 amanda disk 441 Jan 22 01:00 tapelist
But note the user:group it reports.
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