04-08-2010
/dev/rmt/0mn: write protected or reserved
# mt stat
HP DDS-4 DAT (Sun) tape drive:
sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense residual= 0 retries= 0
file no= 0 block no= 0
mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn erase
/dev/rmt/0mn: write protected or reserved.
Getting error while ufsdump ....
--- Dumping / to /dev/rmt/0mn ---
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Apr 02 04:04:16 2010
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/md/rdsk/d0 /) to /dev/rmt/0mn.
DUMP: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: Mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: Writing 32 Kilobyte records
DUMP: Estimated 1594010 blocks (778.33MB).
DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open `/dev/rmt/0mn'. Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") YES
DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open `/dev/rmt/0mn'. Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") YES
DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open `/dev/rmt/0mn'. Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") YES
DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open `/dev/rmt/0mn'. Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") YES
---------- Post updated at 05:32 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:28 AM ----------
The tape drive is connected on a sparc machine
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dump-utmp
DUMP-UTMP(8) GNU Accounting Utilities DUMP-UTMP(8)
NAME
dump-utmp - print an utmp file in human-readable format.
SYNOPSIS
dump-acct [-r|--reverse] [-R|--raw] [-n|--num recs] [-h|--help] [ files]
DESCRIPTION
dump-acct filename prints a list of all logins. This list is usually written in /var/log/wtmp.
All fields are separated by vertical line. Fields are: user name, tty, type, id, pid, hostaddr, host, time.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output and exits.
-n, --num recs
Number of lines to print.
-r, --reverse
Start printing from last records.
-R, --raw
Print raw records, not human-readable.
FILES
wtmp The system wide login record file. See wtmp(5) for further details.
SEE ALSO
login(1), wtmp(5), init(8), sa(8).
AUTHOR
The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
This manual page was written by Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> and updated by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> for the Debian
project (but may be used by others).
6.5.1 2006-04-22 DUMP-UTMP(8)