On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, tom wrote:

- first off I'm real real green at this Unix stuff.  Person that used to take
- care of this where I work left and now someone forgot to change the tape and
- I need to perform an amflush.
-
- When I go to do this I get this error message " amflush: must run amflush as
- user amanda "
-
- I try and login as amanda and I get this error message " This account is
- currently not available."
-
- How do I make the amanda account available so I can do the flush?

What platform?

As root, try 'su - amanda'.

I never allow logins as amanda and setup the system so backup
operators can su to the amanda user via sudo.

If the above does not work then you may need to create the user.
Check the amadna directory to get the correct uid and gid.

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-- Stephen Carville
UNIX and Network Administrator
DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services)
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