>... no dice.
>
>I've added cain root to .amandahosts
Here are some other things to check:
* Verify that .amandahosts is in the home directory of "amanda" on
whatever machine "cain" is connecting to.
* Make sure it is owned by "amanda" and that user "amanda" can get
through all the directories down to it and that the modes are 0600
or 0400.
* Make sure uid 509 is associated with "amanda".
* Make sure there aren't any trailing blanks on the line (I seem to
recall fixing that bug a while back, but don't remember if it's
been released).
If none of that helps, cd to common-src and "make security". Run that
on your amidxtaped machine *as "amanda"*. Answer the questions from
this input:
bsd security: remote host cain user root local user amanda
It will run the same security checks but with more verbose output.
>I should tell you these hosts are not in DNS. Only resoved by the hosts
>file. Can this have a negative effect on amanda's recovery process?
It shouldn't, once everything gets set up. Amanda just calls the standard
gethostby* routines. It doesn't know anything specifically about DNS,
for instance.
You might want to change the /etc/hosts entry for cain, though. I'm
guessing it looks something like this:
A.B.C.D cain cain.usace.army.mil
If you make it like this:
A.B.C.D cain.usace.army.mil cain
the reverse lookup will give you the full name.
>- db
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
