Hi, Gene Heskett,

on Mittwoch, 07. April 2004 at 13:28 you wrote to amanda-users:

GH> On Wednesday 07 April 2004 03:40, pascal thomas wrote:
>>What have I done wrong in this case?
>>
>>[root@amd450 amanda]# su -
>>[root@amd450 root]# amrecover tagesbackup
>>AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3. Contacting server on localhost ...
>>220 amd450 AMANDA index server (2.4.3) ready.
>>500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from
>> root@amd450] amandahostsauth failed [root@amd450 root]# whoami
>>root
>>[root@amd450 root]#
>>
>>entries in my .amandahosts file:
>>
>>localhost amanda
>>localhost root
>>localhost.localdomain amanda
>>localhost.localdomain root

GH> And once again, the docs and the FAQ are ignored.  The use of 
GH> localhost will bite you, and just did.  Replace that with the FQDN,
GH> resolvable in the /etc/hosts file, or with the machines ip address.
GH> There may be other problems, but thats the first step.

Just for the records (and the case someone browses the archives, which
only seems to be done by amanda-hackers and regular amanda-users to
copy-and-paste solutions into replies to hysterical questions ...) :

There will be a WARNING in further AMANDA-releases if you use
something like localhost in your disklist. It's already in the CVS.

People don't read docs. They run the software and wait for problems.

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at