On Thu 02 October 2008 11:04, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:34 -0500, C M Reinehr wrote:
> > 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?
>
> ----
> I should have looked...it's curious to be sure.
>
> # ls -l /dev/tape
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Sep 29 21:02 by-id
>
> # ls -l /dev/tape/by-id/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 29 21:02
> scsi-1SEAGATE_ULTRIUM06242-XXX_HR00X0A-nst -> ../../nst0
>
> and in checking on other systems, that seems to be consistent (/dev/tape
> not being a symbolic link at all but rather having a subdirectory of
> 'by-id' with the actual tape device being linked there.
>
> For now, I have given the bacula user the /bin/bash shell which does
> allow the user to execute sudo supported commands.
>
> Craig
Curious indeed. I've noticed this behavior with regard to /dev/disk, but not
tape. (I have several Debian Stable/Etch servers.) The man page for mt
indicates that the default device is established at compile time so,
apparently, mt hasn't caught up with the new udev rules. I guess you'll just
have to use the -f option to specify the device, unless there's another way
to override the default tape device.
cmr
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