On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 23:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.
Mine says:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 amanda disk 0 Jan 23 00:42 tapelist
The mode change was my first attempt to cure the problem - to no avail.
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Regards,
Erik P. Olsen
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