>>>>> "JL" == Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> writes:

JL> I'm not sure what you were expecting amcheck to do.

I was expecting it to alert me to the fact that no suitable tape was
found and that I should stick a new tape in the changer.  If I don't
change out tapes, the backups tonight will fail.  If I run amcheck -m
as normal, no mail will be sent and so the operator will have no idea
that it's time to stuff some new tapes in.

Previously I have always use a plain drive and changed the tapes
manually.  If I forgot to put a new tape in, amcheck would always
complain it.

JL> It did not find a tape it thought was suitable to use. Your
JL> tapecycle parameter looks to be greater than 7, so it wants an new
JL> (eighth) tape.

I understand that, but it seems that the condition isn't thought of as
a problem by amcheck, hence the subject "NO PROBLEMS FOUND" and the
total lack of mail when '-m' is given when in reality the system is in
an error state.

 - J<