And I am assuming from the errors that I got it will not work because the
config expects .amandahosts to be in /var/lib/amanda.

I've also sorted my authority problem on sda*'s - in the xinetd service
config some documentation I had stated that the group = amanda. Changing
this to "disk" made it work - are there any experts who would like to let me
know if this is correct - it works anyway - my amcheck is now clean.

Thanks to everyone who helped me on this. It was quite a learning curve -
I've eventually got the red hat 7.2 rpms out of the box to work - using my
old configuration files which I restored from backups - made by amanda of
course.

Regards

Kevin Passey

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin, Jeremy [mailto:jmartin AT gsi-kc DOT com]
Sent: 02 June 2003 13:43
To: Kevin Passey
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: RE: UPDATE - Configuring RH7.2 Amanda out of the box - error
accessing Amanda hosts file.


 
> 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 ~