On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 at 5:42pm, Lewis Getschel wrote

> I tried the erase as the amanda user, and I got permission denied. I 
> suspect that amlabel is simply saying write-protected when in fact it is 
> just permission denied.

Yep.

> As a newbie that has looked in the FOM, and read the mailing list for  
> almost a week, I'm confused as to WHAT group I should compile under. 
> Some people say operator, others disk, others xxx (take your pick 
> <grin>). Is the group you use more dependant on what distro you use 
> (hence the permission issue?) Is the group my problem?

You can assign the user/group of you run amanda as in any way which will 
work for you.  On Red Hat Linux, I do amanda:disk (as you did).  Make sure 
that /dev/nst0 has the proper ownership and permissions -- for me 
/dev/nst0 is owned by root:disk with a mode of 660.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University