I tried running chg-manual from the Amanda conf directory, and it
doesn't complain about anything at all.

So I tried again with chg-manual containing lastslot=2 and /dev/tty
default options:

After inserting the second tape, I still get this:
changer: got exit: 0 str: /usr/lib/amanda/chg-manual: line 87: /dev/tty:
No such device or address
slot /usr/lib/amanda/chg-manual:: tape_rdlabel: tape open: line 87:
/dev/tty: No such device or address: No such file or directory

But now I noticed that /var/log/amanda/changer.debug does seem to notice
the second tape now (first tape was daily-7, and second tape was
daily-8):
/dev/nst0 status: ONLINE BOT
     -> loaded </dev/nst0 status: ONLINE BOT>
     -> offline /dev/nst0
     -> load   1
     -> rewind /dev/nst0
     -> status /dev/nst0
/dev/nst0 status: ONLINE BOT
     -> loaded </dev/nst0 status: ONLINE BOT>
AMANDA: TAPESTART DATE X TAPE daily-8
014
1+0 in
1+0 out
Exit -> 1 /dev/nst0

So I'm not sure what that means, but I'll let Amanda run the daily
scheduled dumps and see if it now works.

Otherwise I think I may as well try the newest version of Amanda.

Thanks for all your help.

Johan 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie
Sent: 12 June 2008 02:02
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Amanda 2.5.0 spanning

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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