On Saturday 22 January 2005 17:05, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 17:00 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 09:58:42PM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> > I have labeled the tapes before during my tests without
>> > problems. Now, when preparing amanda for production I relabeled
>> > the tapes (after having duly removed them from the repository by
>> > amrmtape) and changed the directory into which the tapelist
>> > would go. Then amanda wouldn't label the tapes. The command used
>> > was:
>> >
>> > [root@epo full]# su amanda -c "amlabel -f full full01"
>> > rewinding, reading label full01
>> > rewinding, writing label full01, checking labelamlabel: couldn't
>> > write tapelist: Permission denied
>> >
>> > Well, I thought it was permissions for the file tapelist and
>> > changed that to full permission, but still got the same error.
>> >
>> > I then saw syslog had the following message:
>> >
>> > Jan 22 21:13:39 epo su(pam_unix)[9298]: session opened for user
>> > amanda by erik(uid=0)
>> > Jan 22 21:13:39 epo su[9298]: Warning!  Could not relabel
>> > /dev/pts/1 with user_u:object_r:devpts_t, not
>> > relabeling.Operation not permitted Jan 22 21:13:39 epo
>> > su(pam_unix)[9298]: session closed for user amanda
>> >
>> > I have no idea whatsoever what this is all about. I would be
>> > grateful if someone would explain to me what the heck it is and
>> > how I can satisfy amlabel?
>>
>> Here is what I wrote to the list in Oct about
>> someone who seemed to have a similar problem:
>>
>> == I forget the details now, and whether it was fixed, but someone
>> == reported that the tapelist file not only had to exist, but
>> either == had to be zero length (not even a blank line) or had to
>> have a == blank line. Sorry I forget which.
>
>Oh, tapelist exists and has a length of zero just like when I
>successfully ran amlabel during the tests.

But who owns it?  Show us an ls -l output please.

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