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From: XBR1Y028@DDATHD21.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: BACKUP under VMS 4.6 needs PHY_IO !?!?!
Message-ID: <8801070232.AA02948@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 6 Jan 88 17:01:14 GMT
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We observed the following problem under VMS 4.6:

 using BACKUP for saving files on tape (for example) by an non-privileged user,
 the user gets this obscure error message :

  %BACKUP-F-LABELERR, error in tape label processing on MU:[]FOOFOO.BCK;
  -SYSTEM-F-BADPARAM, bad parameter value.

We then asked the TSC center.
This is a well known bug under VMS 4.6 they said.

They said BACKUP currently needs the privilege PHY_IO !

There are currently two ways to handle this problem
(there is no patch available - they said) :

 a) all users who want to use BACKUP should get this privilege (PHY_IO) ???!!

 b) install BACKUP with this privilege (PHY_IO)

We decided to use solution b) !
Unfortunately then BACKUP also refuses to work (even when all privileges are
turned on, like the following command for our daily backup operations):

 $ BACKUP /IGNOR=INTERL /REWIND /FAST /RECORD /DENS=6250-
          /JOU=THD$OPER1:[BACKUP]BACKUP14.BJL.1 -
          USER02:[*...] /SINCE=BACKUP MUA0:6JANBAK.BCK
 %DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image ENCRYPSHR
 -CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file DUA0:[SYS0.][SYSLIB]ENCRYPSHR.EXE;3
 -SYSTEM-F-PRIVINSTALL, shareable images must be installed to run privileged
                                                                      image

Image  SYS$LIBRARY:ENCRYPSHR.EXE  must also be installed with that privilege!


--> I don't like either solution!

Did anyone out there in netland have the same problems (or are you always using
the system account for BACKUPs) ?

Did you come up with a better/different solution?

Thanks in advance,
Walter
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Walter Reichenbaecher
Technical University Darmstadt
University Computing Center
Applications / User Support
Darmstadt, West Germany

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