Yes you can rest assured I will stay part of this group and help out where I
can. It has been a serious learning curve for me going from my M$ tainted
background to straight *nux. Have converted most of our servers running
windows to a *nix OS and have since stopped working as much... LOL

Jason Miller


> From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
> Organization: Organization: None, detectable by casual observers
> Reply-To: <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:31:28 -0400
> To: Jason Miller <jwm AT interlinc DOT net>
> Cc: Matthias Andree <ma AT dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund DOT de>,
> "amanda-users AT amanda DOT org" <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
> Subject: Re: Amanda Client
> 
> On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:18, Jason Miller wrote:
>> Ok I got it, I was making it way too hard again. Re-read the
>> manual's triple checked the configs, folders, permissions and
>> rebooted the server and everything is working now. Figured out
>> there was two things incorrect in my setup and they were. FreeBSD
>> has to have operator:operator not amanda:disk for permissions over
>> the amanda client to allow it to properly read so I redid the port
>> with the default permissions and just set the server and it worked
>> right off the bat after doing the second part. Found a write up
>> showing me there are some directories and files that are not
>> created using the port as well that I had to make and set
>> permissions on. So for those that have a problem with it here is
>> the link for FreeBSD 4.9 port install write up and how to fix it.
>> 
>> Http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2003-November/
>> 018025.html
>> 
> Glad you got it going Jason.  Now, could you stick around and tutor
> the next BSD'er that needs help?
> 
>> 
>> Jason
>> 
>>> From: Matthias Andree <ma AT dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund DOT de>
>>> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:27:08 +0200
>>> To: Jason Miller <jwm AT interlinc DOT net>
>>> Cc: Matthias Andree <ma AT dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund DOT de>,
>>> "amanda-users AT amanda DOT org" <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
>>> Subject: Re: Amanda Client
>>> 
>>> Jason Miller <jwm AT interlinc DOT net> writes:
>>>> The below is exactly what is in my xinetd.conf and I have added
>>>> amanda to it to my hosts.allow and to insure everything is good
>>>> to go I went as far as rebooting the machine.
>>> 
>>> Running amcheck with -c on the server might be another, more
>>> lightweight way to check if the client is fine.
>>> 
>>> BTW, I just remembered that amanda also needs its own access
>>> control file configured, so you'd also do (this is sh syntax not
>>> csh if in doubt):
>>> 
>>> echo "bigstore.example.org amanda" >~operator/.amandahosts
>>> 
>>> replace bigstore.example.org by the server's hostname. Depending
>>> on the DNS setup, you may need to do this as well:
>>> 
>>> echo "bigstore amanda" >>~operator/.amandahosts
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Matthias Andree
>>> 
>>> Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME
>>> preferred)
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
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