Xref: utzoo comp.unix.large:209 comp.unix.admin:660 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato!aukuni.ac.nz!russell From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) Newsgroups: comp.unix.large,comp.unix.admin Subject: Wanted -- tape management system Message-ID: <1990Dec6.044038.21954@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> Date: 6 Dec 90 04:40:38 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand. Lines: 23 We need a system to manage tapes on our SGI 4D system. We are looking for the following features. 1/ supports ANSI labels 2/ mount and unmount operations for both labeled and unlabeled tapes. 3/ catalog of tape giving storage location and other information for tape held by the system. 4/ wrappers for tar etc to read and then skip over labels. Item 2 implies managing the /dev... files to maintain secure access to who ever has the device mounted at any particular time. I would be interested in system that does parts of this e.g. manage the security of the /dev... files to prevent one user overwriting another's tape since I will probably end up writing a system if I can't find one. (I have done it before on an IBM VM system in PLI and assembler :-( ) Cheers Russell. -- Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.