Many thanks to all who helped. All is working so far. I changed the dump user to amanda, and ran amcheck as su amanda.
Thanks again, Trevor. ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Trevor Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 11:34 AM Subject: Re: Amcheck: acess denied > Trevor > > yeah looks like you've got username access problems. > > make sure that both the client and server are compiled with the > userid=amanda group=somegroup settings and make sure that the amanda > user exists on both systems. > > Also as another poster mentioned, make sure you've got xinetd setup > correctly. > > and then run amcheck as the amanda user. > > -- > Martin > > Trevor Fraser wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Martin Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Trevor Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 5:10 PM > > Subject: Re: Amcheck: acess denied > > > > > > > >>trevor > >> > >>didn't get the attachment > >> > >>-- > >>martin > >> > >>Trevor Fraser wrote: > >> > >>>Hi Martin. > >>> > >>>Thanks for your reply. > >>> > >>> My amcheck.xxxxxxxxx.debug says: > >>>amcheck: debug 1 pid 3541 ruid 0 euid 0 start time Tue > >> > > Jul 16 > > > >>>16:08:37 2002 > >>>amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.698 =>*this changes > >> > > from > > > >>>debug to debug* > >>>amcheck: pid 3541 finish time Tue Jul 16 16:08:37 2002 > >>> > >>>Please find amamdad.xxxxxxxxxx.debug file attached. Thanks, Trevor. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Trevor > >>>> > >>>>What do the debug files say in /tmp/amanda on both the client and > >>> > > server? > > > >>>>-- > >>>>Martin > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >