>... Although strictly, it says"running as user "tape" instead of
>"root"." If it means "you ran amcheck as "tape" but "dumpuser" in
>amanda.conf is set to "root"," why not say that? ...
You've got the source. Be my guest :-).
The whole "what user is used where" issue in Amanda needs a complete
top to bottom review and cleanup. I agree it is very confusing.
>Ah... It appears not to have been. At least there's no USE_AMANDAHOSTS
>in the /tmp/amanda/amandad.debug.
Well, that would explain a lot :-).
>2.4.1p1 on the client, 2.4.2p2 on the server. Are there
>incompatibility issues between the versions?
None that I know of.
>I'll upgrade the client machine and rebuild to use amandahosts. That
>will probably solve all the access problems.
I suspect that will solve your problem. At some point (don't recall
when) the default became --with-amandahosts. It might be that was
after 2.4.1p1.
>Jeremy Wadsack
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