I finally, after much wrestling, got a single computer installation of
the 3.2.0 beta1 release, amanda-3.2.0_beta1.tar.gz, compiled and
running on Ubuntu 10.10 (a pre-release, as it is due out in about a
week).

Initially I compiled with no arguments to ./configure. That produced a
problem where amanadad refused to run except as user "amanda" and the
server ran as "backup".

I then recompiled with:

./configure CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" --with-user=backup --with-group=backup

I'm no expert on configure, so that could be wrong. BTW, are the
options for configure documented anywhere?

That done, I was able to get an amckeck, a backup and a recovery,
verified by diffing the two trees. With 1 DLE, amcheck takes about 7
seconds to check the client.

However, approximately every other use of the client results in no
service at the amanda port:

# netstat -a | grep amanda
#

syslog reports (may wrap on your MUA):

--------------------------------------------------
Oct  4 20:22:16 meerkat xinetd[25867]: Started working: 1 available service
Oct  4 20:22:25 meerkat xinetd[25867]: file descriptor of service amanda has 
been closed
Oct  4 20:22:25 meerkat xinetd[25867]: select reported EBADF but no bad file 
descriptors were found
--------------------------------------------------

I worked around this by restarting xinetd.

Nothing in the log files jumps out at me.

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