backup@backup:~$ amgetconf DailySet1 tapelist
/etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapelist
backup@backup:~$ ls -l `amgetconf DailySet1 tapelist`
-rw-------  1 backup backup 886 May  5 09:12 /etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapelist


Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 04:53:28PM +0000, Mike wrote:

tapelist is listed in amanda.conf (/etc/amanda/DailySet1/tapelist), owned by amanda user, and writable, so whats up??

backup@backup:/etc/amanda$ amadmin DailySet1 no-reuse DailySet16
amadmin: marking tape DailySet16 as not reusable.

amadmin: could not write tapelist "(null)"

                                     ^^^^^^
Peeking at the source shows this value should be the
configuration file value for the location of the tapelist
file.  As it is reported as "null", my first inclination is
there is a configuration error.  What do you get when you do
(as amanda user, what is that user, backup?):

        amgetconf DailySet1 tapelist
        ls -l `amgetconf DailySet1 tapelist`