well, upon further investigation, it looks like bacula-sd runs as root
anyway.

[root@d0lphb040 ~]# ps maux|grep bacula-sd
root     10838  0.0  0.0 242220  1992 ?        -    10:04   0:00 bacula-sd
-c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf



thanks,
jonathan






On 2/8/13 9:55 AM, "Alan Brown" <ucasabr AT ucl.ac DOT uk> wrote:

>On 08/02/13 15:02, Jonathan Horne wrote:
>> well, ill retry them all again, but the drive works enough to label all
>> the barcodes in the drive.
>
>What uid is bacula-sd running as?
>
>Does that uid have permission to access the tape drives?
>
>


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