Kenji Lefevre wrote:

        Hello,

i'm trying to use amrecover but it doesn't work.
I got this line in amidxtaped.20080728141244.debug

Could not rewind device '/dev/nst0': tape_rewind: tape open: /dev/nst0:
Permission denied
could not open tape device /dev/nst0: Permission denied

though i'm running amrecover as root with id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel)
context=root:system_r:unconfined_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh

and /dev/nst0 has permission
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 128 Jun 25 11:39 /dev/nst0

So root belongs to group disk.

But amrecover contacts a program on the server, and that programs
runs a the amandabackup user (or whatever you specified in xinetd
config.  So make sure that that user is added to the group "disk"
and that that xinetd option "groups = yes" is set as well.

Moreover amverify works (launched by root).

Because amverify does not contact another process, but does the
verification itself.