Gene Heskett wrote:

On Friday 21 July 2006 11:29, Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:17:37PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:

On Friday 21 July 2006 15:58, Gene Heskett wrote:

I'm just as puzzled, I now have the latest 2.5.1p1-20060719
installed and I have no such file either.

Would the OP please supply the full path to this file?

The filename is tapestatus and is created in the config directory
(e.g., where amanda.conf resides).

The bin responsible for it is chg-scsi. It grows in size in an
amazing speed...

The changer.conf file contains the line:
tapestatus      /var/amanda/ISR/tapestatus # here will some status
infos be stored

so that's where the filename comes from. The file seems to be opened
and filled in scsi-changer-driver.c (lines 4558 and 4696 onwards).

From the low volume of comments about chg-scsi on this list

it seems few sites are using that changer.  Thus our unfamiliarity
with its config and log files.  Sorry.

I used it back when I had those %$# seagate 4586n's, which would have put the amanda version running someplace in the 2.4.3-4 area. I don't recall that file ever being more than 2 bytes long, and it pointed at the slot the tape presently loaded came from IIRC.

Of course, as few people post to the list except with problems,
maybe the low volume speaks to the reliability of chg-scsi.

It don't think it has that "r" word in its vocabulary from my experience. One of the reasons, not the strongest one, but certainly a consideration in abandoning it in favor of vtapes, was its refusal to issue a rewind before reading a tapes label block. Smartest move I ever made, my amanda troubles have shrunk to less than 1% of their former frequency. I think then even, that I was the only one useing chg-scsi in this lists membership, so my questions about it also went unanswered. I looked at the code to see if I might stumble over a way to fix it, but after a week of trying to understand that bowl of cooked, well stirred spagetti, I gave up. I can't offer positive assistance, my apologies.

 Peter