Make sure that amandad in your xinetd/ inetd is enabled and up and
running.
It's not an authorization problem but a service problem.
cheers
Axel

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 06:20, Vlad wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can you help with setting amanda backup for localhost ?
> Here is my disklist file:
> localhost   /var  OracleBackup
> 
> Amanda check is:
> bash$ amcheck DailySet2
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> Holding disk /tmp: 452432 KB disk space available, that's plenty
> ERROR: log dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet2: not writable
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> Tape OracleBackup1 label ok
> NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet2/curinfo: does not exist
> NOTE: it will be created on the next run
> NOTE: index dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet2/index: does not exist
> Server check took 1.459 seconds
> 
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> WARNING: localhost: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> Client check: 1 host checked in 30.004 seconds, 1 problem found
> 
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2)
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