I've had auth problems with one of the hosts I'm backing up for some time; amcheck saysI found out what was going on after all; it turned out to be a hostname lookup issue. An official hostname for the Amanda server different from the one on most other machines would be returned on this particular host due to an extra entry in /etc/hosts. (The name usually comes from DNS.)
# amcheck -c ks
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
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ERROR: bmw: [access as amanda not allowed from root@<server>] amandahostsauth failed
I guess I should list more of the alternative names (there are a lot due to local alias setup and because we have registered several names for our domain) in .amandahosts...
Question: Can I use regexps in the file?
- Toralf
