Gene, thanks for your help. I finally seem to be on the track of fixing the problem. I completely nuked amanda and let Gentoo rebuild it from scratch, after providing the ebuild with the proper env vars. This didn't help, but it gave me a clean slate.
After that, I rewrote my amanda.conf and disklist files for the affected configs using the templates provided with the current version of amanda (my old configs have been in use for about 5 years, through several versions of amanda, and were somewhat hacked and outdated). I'm not sure exactly which parameter(s) made the difference, but a backup of the main local system seems to be proceeding well. I note that the Gentoo build defaults to 'localhost' for the server address, which should _always_ be 127.0.0.1, and hence unambiguous. I trust the Gentoo devs implicitly. IMHO, they're right up there with the Debian package maintainers in knowledge and experience. I did, however, use the FQDN for the server in the ebuild, which I prefer in any event. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> http://www.fmp.com | |
