On Monday 06 March 2006 13:40, Martin Simmons wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:59:00 +0000 (GMT), david robert > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > thanks for your reply.I am really out of ideas my tape drive permissions > > as follows > > > > crwxrwxrwx 1 root tape 9, 0 2005-02-26 06:38 st0 > > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bacula 9810 2006-03-06 09:14 bacula-dir.conf > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 912 2006-03-03 19:24 bacula-fd.conf > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 bacula bacula 1950 2006-03-06 09:17 bacula-sd.conf > > > > Tape group is havig bacula automatically.One strange thing is bacula > > director showing it is starting but when i went to check the process it > > is not running because of this error > > > > st0:MTSETDRVBUFFER only allowed for root > > > > i am blank in this case when the problem and how to fix this > > > > Thanks for your help > > It is a limitation of Linux: the MTSETDRVBUFFER can only be done as root, > regardless of the permissions on the tape device. I think it is just a > warning, so should not prevent the sd from running.
Correct. This is only a warning. You must be root for this function to work on most OSes. This would only be a problem if your tape drive is not properly configured prior to running the SD, which unfortunately happens frequently if you don't have the right default after a boot or if you let another "sophisticated" program use the drive. > > You could try starting the sd under strace to try to see if it fails with > some other permission problem. > > __Martin > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
