Thank you to all the generous folks who have given me suggestions.
Unfortunately, I still can't get it to work. I still get the same error
massage with "[access as amanda not allowed from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]]".
Here's some clarification on my system. I'm trying to backup the
tapeserver. My tape is on a machine called admin.jhuccp.org. The userID
for both client and server is "amanda", group is "disk".
I've tried all these variations in the /home/amanda/.amandahosts and
/var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts files (one at a time; the comments are how
I kept track of what I tried):
admin:/home/amanda # cat .amandahosts
#admin.jhuccp.org amanda.admin.jhuccp.org
#admin amanda.admin.jhuccp.org
admin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#admin amanda
#admin.jhuccp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
admin:/home/amanda #
Both files are owned by amanda:disk and have 0600 permissions.
As an aside, is it still necessary to have both
/var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts and /home/amanda/.amandahosts files? Do
they have to be the same?
My /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services were patched by 'patch-system':
admin:/home/amanda # grep amanda /etc/services
amanda 10080/udp
amanda 10080/tcp
kamanda 10081/udp
amandaidx 10082/tcp
admin:/home/amanda # grep amanda /etc/inetd.conf
# amanda backup server with indexing capabilities
# amandaidx stream tcp nowait root
/usr/lib/amanda/amindexd amindexd
# amidxtape stream tcp nowait root
/usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped amidxtaped
# amanda backup client
# amanda dgram udp wait amanda /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad
amanda dgram udp wait amanda /usr/local/libexec/amandad
amandad
amandaidx stream tcp nowait amanda /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
amindexd
amidxtape stream tcp nowait amanda /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
amidxtaped
admin:/home/amanda #
Any additional suggestions?
Thanks for continuing to think about this.
-Kevin Zembower
-----
E. Kevin Zembower
Unix Administrator
Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, MD 21202
410-659-6139
>>> Ana Maria Escalante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/10/01 08:32PM
>>>
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
>
> -----
> E. Kevin Zembower
> Unix Administrator
> Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs
> 111 Market Place, Suite 310
> Baltimore, MD 21202
> 410-659-6139
>
