Hi, Gene Heskett, on Mittwoch, 07. April 2004 at 13:28 you wrote to amanda-users:
GH> On Wednesday 07 April 2004 03:40, pascal thomas wrote: >>What have I done wrong in this case? >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda]# su - >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# amrecover tagesbackup >>AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3. Contacting server on localhost ... >>220 amd450 AMANDA index server (2.4.3) ready. >>500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# whoami >>root >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# >> >>entries in my .amandahosts file: >> >>localhost amanda >>localhost root >>localhost.localdomain amanda >>localhost.localdomain root GH> And once again, the docs and the FAQ are ignored. The use of GH> localhost will bite you, and just did. Replace that with the FQDN, GH> resolvable in the /etc/hosts file, or with the machines ip address. GH> There may be other problems, but thats the first step. Just for the records (and the case someone browses the archives, which only seems to be done by amanda-hackers and regular amanda-users to copy-and-paste solutions into replies to hysterical questions ...) : There will be a WARNING in further AMANDA-releases if you use something like localhost in your disklist. It's already in the CVS. People don't read docs. They run the software and wait for problems. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
