...but "root" is not allowed to rsh to localhost as user "amanda"...
I don't like "rsh" as a security mechanism, amandad should be tcpwrappered in inetd.conf or the equivalent for xinetd instead. Try recompiling / reinstalling amanda with the "--without-bsd-security" option. - Michael Hogsett > Hi there, > > I've tried to find another one like this in th archive without any luck. > Hopefully someone knows the answer. > > As I'm running SuSE 7.3 I have amanda automatically installed. I can run the > amcheck just fine. Also did backup fine by backing up locahost. I then tried > to read the tape with tar but got an error 'tar: /dev/st0 Cannot read Cannot > allocate memory'. Odd as I have 128MB and 66M free. > > So I looked up and discovered the backup log and so on. It all looks fine. So > > I thought I'd try the amrestore. Doing that results in error message: > > '500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from root@localhost] > amandahostsauth failed'. > > The funny part is that I'm running as root, not amanda. > -- > > Steve Szmidt > V.P. Information > Video Group Distributors, Inc.
