> I am new to amanda ...
Welcome!
>read the faq, read the archives etc ...
Good for you! :-)
>but cannot find
>solutions to my problems which are mostly related to permission problems.
As Joshua Baker-LePain wrote, it looks like most of your problems are
related to not putting "bin" in group "disk".
>Should amcheck ONLY be executed from root?
Amcheck should **never** be run as root. In fact, none of the Amanda
programs (except amrecover) should be run as root. They should be run
as the Amanda user ("bin" in your case).
>Why does it skip the writetest?
The write test is "destructive", i.e. whatever backup images were on the
tape will no longer be accessible. Most people like to play it safe and
not lose them "just in case". If you really want to enable the test to
make sure the tape is writable, add the "-w" flag to "amcheck".
>... In disklist to get this running (finetuning later) I have:
>localhost / root-tar
Please don't use "localhost". Use the fully qualified domain name.
"localhost" has "issues" that will eventually bite you.
One addition to Joshua's xinetd.conf entry:
groups yes
This tells xinetd to run amandad with all of the groups the user is a
member of rather than just the primary.
And one deletion. Don't put "server_args amandad". That's a
confusion caused by differences between inetd and xinetd. You needed
the corresponding thing for inetd.conf, but xinetd does not have that
issue and passing an extra argument to amandad is wrong.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
