Re: amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn English
More diagnostics. when crontab line is "* * * 7 * echo [`whoami`]" running the job prints "[backup]" if line == "echo `mt -f /dev/nst0 status`" output == "mt: /dev/nst0: Permission denied" command line: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo [`whoami`] [backup] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo `mt -f /dev/nst0 sta

Re: amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn English
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

Re: amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:45:48AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > Amanda is installed and commands and scripts are working well from the > command line (I did have to add the sbins to backup's path to run the > amanda utilities). > > But when I run a shell script as a cron job as user backup, acce