Craig,

On Thu 02 October 2008 09:56, Craig White wrote:
> Ran into a problem with the latest updates to CentOS 5. I have been
> running Bacula 2.0.3 on a few systems for over a year now. Now after the
> updates, the last job runs the script, 'end_of_backup.sh' which runs the
> following commands:
>
> mt rewind
> mt eject
>
> and at the end of the job, it returned this error
>
> AfterJob: /dev/tape: Inappropriate ioctl for device

I don't use CentOS so I'm speculating here, but the mt command, as you have 
it, is using the default tape device which, in this case, appears to 
be /dev/tape. After the upgrade, is /dev/tape still linked to the correct 
device, i.e. to /dev/nst0?

cmr

> which never happened before and it would have rewound and ejected the
> tape.
>
> So I went to a different system that is running Bacula 1.3.8 on CentOS 4
> and I ended up modifying my sudoers file and changing the
> end_of_backup.sh script to run instead...
>
> sudo mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
> sudo mt -f /dev/nst0 eject
>
> and made those same modifications on this system and at the end of the
> backup now, I get the following error...
>
> AfterJob: sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
>
> OK, that makes sense but that also means that I don't have a theory on
> how to handle ejecting the tape as user bacula via a script.
>
> Ideas anyone?
>
> Craig

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