> Well - I bit the bullet and removed amanda and did a 
> re-install using the
> RPM from my RH7.2 disks.
> 
> Doing that I was able to determine that the RH7.2 
> configuration expects the
> .amandahosts file to be in /var/lib/amanda - I presume that's 
> why it wasn't
> working - can anybody clarify this for me.

Hi,

I noticed this too with a RedHat 9 install.

When installing RedHat if you tell it to install amanda, it creates the amanda 
account and ets /var/lib/amanda/ as its home directory, it looks like. If you 
don't install amanda during the RedHat install and install it manually later 
you'll need to set up a new amanda account which by default uses /home/amanda/ 
for ~