>the runtar debug files in /tmp/amanda have the following: >... >error [must be invoked by root] > >and indeed if one tries to do a 'runtar' by hand, as the amanda user (whom >the backups are configured to run as), the same error message results.
Look at your amandad*debug file in the same directory, in particular for the "CLIENT_LOGIN=" value. That user (and I'd bet money it says "root") is who you have to set up Amanda (amandad in inetd.conf) to run as. >amanda was installed from a binary found at: >http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~ank/amanda/binaries/ >(which seems to be unresponsive at the moment). > >the machine doesn't have a compiler; so recompiling isn't really a good >option. The client login value is built into the binaries, which is one major reason the general recommendation is *against* running binaries built by someone else. You either need to change your inetd.conf line to run amandad as root (although I don't know why the builder set it up that way) -- don't forget to HUP inetd -- or else find a pre-built copy of gcc someplace and use that to build Amanda yourself. >Carl Soderstrom. John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
