Casile Antonino wrote:
>
> Thanks to everybody who replied to my E-mail .... unfortunately all the
> advices had no effect .. I keep on getting the same error.
> To make things a little bit clearer I installed amanda using the rpms
> given with Linux RedHat7.0 for i386. I think that the rpms are compiled
> with the option --with-amandahosts on. In any case they create a file
> /root/.amandahosts upon installing.
>
> These rpms automatically create a user named "operator". The entry in
> /etc/passwd is :
>
> operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash
>
> In /etc/amanda/DailySet1/amand.conf I added the following line :
>
> dumpuser "operator" # the user to run dumps under
>
> The file /root/.amandahosts is :
>
> raffaello.bu.edu operator
RedHat likes to keep /root with mode 700, so operator will probably not
be able to access /root/.amandahosts.
Check .amandahosts' access time with "ls -lu /root/.amandahosts". It
should be updated each run.
