Check the permissions on /dev/st0 what group owns that device? Add the
backuppc user to the tape group (or whoever the owning group of the
device is)




On 7/31/08, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Jeff Rippy wrote:
>> Thanks for the quick reply.  The backuppc user uses /bin/sh not bash.
>> sh is a symbolic link to /bin/dash it looks like.  Not sure if this
>> helps or not.
>
> The shell doesn't have much to do with this except possibly giving you
> the wrong error message.  The real problem is almost certainly that the
> backuppc user doesn't have write permission on /dev/st0 (and if you are
> ever going to write more than one run to a tape you might want to use
> /dev/nst0 instead).
>
> I'm not sure how Ubuntu handles the setup, but udev-based systems
> rebuild the device nodes on the fly so if you just change
> owner/group/permissions, you have to do it after every reboot.  If it is
> group rw you can add the backuppc user to it's group.  Otherwise you'll
> have to add a udev rule or something to control it.
>
> --
>    Les Mikesell
>      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
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