On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 at 4:02pm, Qian Chen wrote

> google found your post in 6/2002. "$chkconfig --list" showed the amandaidx
> amidxtape were not running. I enabled them and was able to do "$telnet
> localhost amandaidx". amrecover would let me in now, i can see all the
> files i want to extract and add them to the list. BUT it won't extract!
> hehe another speedbump! I will do more searth for tapeless amrecover.
> thanks for the help.

You must run amrecover as root.  Thus you must have root in .amandahosts.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University