Re: remote tape with ontape (dd command) fail afte

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Guillermo Gómez Valcárcel <guillermo.gomez@grafia.es> wrote: > Until now I had been archiving our database with ontape throught remote tape > connecting to another host called gestion. > > The onconfig parameter is: > TAPEDEV gestion:/dev/rmt/2 > > Yesterday I install openssh in gestion (the tape host) and now I get dd: > "Permission denied" when execute ontape command from another host that not > have openssh installed. > > Database host: Informix Dynamic Server 9.21.UC5 – Solaris 8 without openssh. > Tape host: Solaris 7 with openssh. > > $ ontape -s -L 1> Please mount tape 1 on gestion:/dev/rmt/2u and press Return to continue ... > Remote tape report: > dd: /dev/rmt/2u: open: Permission denied > could not write archive tape. > > Any remote command with dd works without problems: > > $ rsh gestion "dd if=/var/tmp/graficos_1999.txt" > > /var/tmp/graficos_1999.txt> 89+1 records in > 89+1 records out > > But ontape doesn't. dd fail with Permission denied. > > What can I do? > Uninstall on tape host? > Install openssh on database host sent backup correctly? Odd that the rsh commands work... There's the DBREMOTECMD environment variable. Also take a good look at permissions on the tape server machine - are you sure the directory where the files are going have the correct permissions? Have you checked .rhosts files etc? Did installing SSH somehow screw that up? No real answer - mostly just questions; sorry. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2007.0914 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ NB: Please do not use this email for correspondence. I don't necessarily read it every week, even.