Hi,

you have to add the line

machine.domain    root

to the .amandahosts file for user amanda...

Martin

> I can run amlabel and amdump with no problems as user
> "amanda". However, whenever I run amrecover as root, I
> get the following message.
> 
> Can someone help, please?
> 
> [root@Rockwell normal]# amrecover normal
> AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3. Contacting server on
> localhost ...
> 220 Rockwell AMANDA index server (2.4.3) ready.
> 500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed
> from root@Rockwell] amandahostsauth failed
> [root@Rockwell normal]#
> 
> 
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