>>> On 7/9/2007 at 3:47 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Drescher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Please also note that, in the new and improved versions, the device name >> is enclosed in double quotes, just like in the book and your examples, but >> not, alas, like my originals. >> >> Now when I attempt the label barcode, I am presented with a choice of >> devices, VXA and Auto. I choose 'Auto', but get exactly the same result from >> Bacula. No matter what I do, it can't open the device "VXA3" (/dev/nst0). >> > > This might be a permissions issue. Depending on your install your bacula-sd > may be running as user bacula. If so you need to make sure that user bacula > has full access to the tape drive. > > John
Well, I just did the following: # groupadd bacula # vi /etc/group Make the last line look like this: bacula:!:1000:root,bacula,richarw # chown bacula:bacula /dev/nst0 At this point, presumably the user and group bacula own /dev/nst0. # ls -l /dev/nst0 # crw-rw---- 1 bacula bacula 9, 128 Jul 5 15:14 /dev/nst0 No change in result. Most perplexing. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6, Linux+ Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
