Hi Kevin:
I am not sure if I understood everything from your message, but it is
not clear to me, which user will be doing the backups from the server
(amanda is the default user) and whether your client machine is the same
as your server.
You must have a .amandahosts file in the client amanda home
directory, that gives access to amanda user from the server machine.
In my setup, my backup admin acount is amanda, my server is
server.domain.mx and my client is client.domain.mx. I have an .amandahosts
file in amanda�s home directory in the client with the following line:
server.domain.mx amanda
You will also need an .amandahosts file in the server�s amanda�s home
directory, with the client machines name and root as the authorized user,
in order to recover from the clients, but that is another story.
If you have a .rhosts file in your clients amanda�s home directory,
it must have this same line. I have heard about it :)
Hope this helps. Good luck ... Ana Maria
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
> I'm trying to get my first setup of amanda working. Running amcheck
> gives me:
> admin:/home/amanda # su amanda -c "/usr/local/sbin/amcheck DailySet1"
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> Holding disk /var/amanda: 5807968 KB disk space available, that's
> plenty
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> Tape DailySet101 label ok
> NOTE: info dir /var/log/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/admin/sdb1: does not
> exist
> NOTE: info dir /var/log/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/admin/sda1: does not
> exist
> NOTE: info dir /var/log/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo/admin/sda3: does not
> exist
> Server check took 16.516 seconds
>
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> ERROR: admin: [access as amanda not allowed from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]] amandahostsauth failed
> Client check: 1 host checked in 0.029 seconds, 1 problem found
>
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3b1)
> admin:/home/amanda #
>
> Yet, I have a .amandahosts file with what I think are the proper
> contents and permissions:
> admin:/home/amanda # ll /home/amanda/.amandahosts
> -rw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 30 Dec 10 16:36
> /home/amanda/.amandahosts
> admin:/home/amanda # cat /home/amanda/.amandahosts
> admin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> admin:/home/amanda #
>
> I'm stumped. I've tried or checked all the suggestions in the
> FAQ-a-matic for this topic. It's probably something simple, that I don't
> see because I'm new to amanda. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -Kevin Zembower
>
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> Unix Administrator
> Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs
> 111 Market Place, Suite 310
> Baltimore, MD 21202
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