On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:55 -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > First I would check that the 'backup' user is part of the 'tape' > group.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep tape /etc/group tape:x:26:backup > If not a permissions setting of 660 owned by root:tape would give > exactly what you describe. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/nst* crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 128 Jul 22 13:54 /dev/nst0 crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 224 Jul 22 13:54 /dev/nst0a crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 160 Jul 22 13:54 /dev/nst0l crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 192 Jul 22 13:54 /dev/nst0m crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 129 Jul 22 13:54 /dev/nst1 crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 225 Jul 22 13:54 /dev/nst1a crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 161 Jul 22 13:54 /dev/nst1l crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 193 Jul 22 13:54 /dev/nst1m (there's a DAT and a DLT on this machine, both of which act identically) Jeremy's crontab entry: > 45 0 * * 2-6 /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1 Mine (the script's a trivial wrapper for the command "/usr/sbin/amdump $1" It works from CL and from cron on last month's (gentoo) system): 11 1 * * 1,3,6 /var/backups/amanda-scripts/amdump-script.sh sls When the cron job runs: *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [tape_rdlabel: tape open: /dev/nst0: Permission denied]. Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk. Run amflush again to flush them to tape. >From the command line, all works fine. I agree completely with everything Jeremy said. And as far as I can tell, that's exactly what I'm doing. But it doesn't work. I know this is going to be obvious, but I'm sure stumped right now... -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
