Maria McKinley wrote: > Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 6/13/2007 8:58 PM, Maria McKinley wrote: >>> Ralf Gross wrote: >>>> Maria McKinley schrieb: >>>>> Falk Sauer wrote: >>>>>> please make shure that your changer device has the correct permissions >>>>>> eg.: >>>>>> >>>>>> crw-rw---- root disk /dev/sg0 >>>>>> >>>>>> and for the potentially next problem ... >>>>>> by your tapedrive device i'm unshure, i think this should /dev/nst0, i >>>>>> don't >>>>>> know how its correct on exabyte tapes. >>>>>> >>>>>> Normally the /dev/st* device makes a automatic rewind after write, >>>>>> the /dev/nst* make no auto rewind. Bacula needs imho a non auto >>>>>> rewinding >>>>>> device. You dosn't write wich OS you use, here are little differences >>>>>> between >>>>>> the OSes. >>>>> My permissions are: >>>>> >>>>> crw------- 1 root root 21, 0 2005-02-25 22:38 sg0 >>>>> >>>>> so, maybe that is my problem. Can I just change this, like any file, >>>>> with chown (assuming that the disk part is important) and chmod? >>>> udev might override the permissions again. I would create an udev rule >>>> to set the right permissions (check if your system uses udev). >>>> >>>> You could try something like that: >>>> >>>> /etc/udev/rules.d/010-local.rules >>>> >>>> KERNEL=="st*", GROUP="tape", MODE="0660" >>>> KERNEL=="nst*", GROUP="tape", MODE="0660" >>>> >>>> /etc/init.d/udev restart (or reload...) >>>> >>>> The bacula user has to be member of group tape. >>>> >>>> Ralf >>>> >>> Hmm, udev does not seem to be installed, although curiously, the config >>> files are there. On the machine I had working previously with this tape >>> drive and an earlier version of bacula (1.36), udev was also not >>> installed, but again the config files were there, so it seems some other >>> package is using and installing these config files. >> ... >>> I'm still not entirely sure what to do about it. Since udev isn't >>> actually installed, I'm not sure what to restart to read my script. >>> Seems like something should be reading the udev config files, since I >>> didn't put the default ones there, so some package must have. I'd rather >>> not reboot this machine, but I will if no one knows, and then I can see >>> if the permissions were updated. But how on earth did this get set in my >>> previous installation without a script in udev? >> Which OS do you use? >> >> Usually, there a commands available to tell you which package a file >> belongs to. For example, running an rpm-based distribution: >> elf:~ # rpm -qf /etc/udev/udev.conf >> udev-030-9.2 >> >> Starting with that information, or knowing which OS you run, someone >> might have an idea... >> >> >> Oh, and of course you could always add a simple line like 'chown >> bacula.tape /dev/sg0' into the Bacula start script. >> >> Arno >> > > Ah, thanks for that jolt. Forgot about figuring out what package a file > belongs to. Looks like both hdparm and mt-st have files in the > /etc/udev, so I tried reloading hdparm, and that updated permissions in > /dev. I am now trying to label the tapes, but it appears that bacula is > hung trying, this is where I've been for over 10 minutes: > > *label barcodes > Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula > Automatically selected Storage: Exabyte > Connecting to Storage daemon Exabyte at dinah:9103 ... > > > In answer to other questions, mtx and mt-st both work from the command > line, and the tape changer is definitely /dev/sg0, and the tape drive is > definitely /dev/st0 > > thanks again, > Maria >
try use mtx-changer instead of mtx and see whats happened i think u should enable debug mode in mtx-changer too and look into log file. are you sure bacula have right permissions to this devices? -- bEsT rEgArDs | "Confidence is what you have before you tomasz dereszynski | understand the problem." -- Woody Allen TD840-RIPE | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
