--On Wednesday, July 07, 2004 16:15:34 -0500 Amanda Listserv account <amandals 
AT rincewind.beloit DOT edu> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've recently started trying to get amanda installed (the newest version as 
> of a week ago) on a few of my linux boxes here in the shop and I've come 
> across two problems.  The the server install went smoothly on my Debian Sarge 
> install, as well as a
> client install on 3 Fedora boxes.  However, when I did a client install on 
> two of my other debian boxes, amcheck returns that it cannot find DUMP on 
> those machines.  I've checked all of the following: 1) Dump is installed
> 2) The amanda user has priveleges to use dump
> 3) Permissions are exactly the same as on my my working amanda server as well 
> as the working fedora boxes.

Does dump have the same path on all the boxes?  Check the debug files
(normally in /tmp/amanda) on the non-working client, it should give you
the full path for the dump it is trying to run and possibly a more complete
error message.

Frank

> 
> 
> I've checked the FAQ on the website as well as the help documents included 
> with amanda and these mainly suggest that if dump works for the user on the 
> client machine, it should for the server.  Soo......I'm stuck.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas about what I should be checking /doing I'd greatly 
> appreciate it!
> 
> Thanks!
> -Steve
> 



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