On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:38:36PM +0100, Johan Booysen wrote:
> I thought that as well and tried to change it to one slot in chg-manual
> (firstslot=1 and lastslot=1), but with the same result.
> 
> I've now tried to direct the output from chg-manual to
> /var/log/chg-manual.log instead of to /dev/tty, as per Dustin's
> suggestion, but it doesn't work yet:
> 
> -rw------- 1 amanda disk      0 Jun 11 16:25 chg-manual.log
> 
> # su -c "amtape daily show" amanda
> changer: got exit: 0 str: 1 2 1
> changer_query: changer return was 2 1
> changer_query: searchable = 0
> amtape: scanning all 2 slots in tape-changer rack:
> changer_find: looking for NULL changer is searchable = 0
> changer: got exit: 0 str: 1 /dev/nst0
> slot 1: date X        label daily-6
> changer: got exit: 0 str: /usr/lib/amanda/chg-manual: line 86:
> /var/log/chg-manual.log: Permission denied
> slot /usr/lib/amanda/chg-manual:: tape_rdlabel: tape open: line 86:
> /var/log/chg-manual.log: Permission denied: No such file or directory
> 
> I'll try adjusting the log file's permissions, and will try with only
> one slot again.
> 
> Thanks for your replies.


Well, some interesting things, even if not solutions, came from
simplifying things.  You might consider even avoiding amtape and
running chg-manual directly from the amanda configuration directory.
As a shell script, it could even be run with debug options:

  sh -x <path_to>/chg-manual <arguments>


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