Does your disklist look something like below? These are in my
/etc/amanda/DailySet1/disklist file.

nnewton.wadsworth.org   /dev/sda12      always-full     -1      local


Here is what my xinetd.d config files look like on a Redhat 9.0 system. Hope
this helps, note on my RH 9.0 system in my /etc/passwd amanda is NOT part of
the disk group. I installed it through RPM so I would assume this would be
the correct settings for your 7.2 but that is another assumption on my part.
I also noticed that there is not a RPM for 7.2 on rpmfind.net but there is a
7.3.

service amanda
{
        socket_type             = dgram
        protocol                = udp
        wait                    = yes
        user                    = amanda
        group                   = disk
        server                  = /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
        disable                 = no
}

service amidxtape
{
        socket_type             = stream
        protocol                = tcp
        wait                    = no
        user                    = amanda
        group                   = disk
        server                  = /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped
        disable                 = no
}


service amandaidx
{
        socket_type             = stream
        protocol                = tcp
        wait                    = no
        user                    = amanda
        group                   = disk
        server                  = /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd
        disable                 = no
}

Jason





> From: Brian Cuttler <brian AT wadsworth DOT org>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:47:28 -0400
> To: Jason Miller <jwm AT interlinc DOT net>
> Cc: Eric Siegerman <erics AT telepres DOT com>, <amanda-users AT amanda DOT 
> org>, Chris
> Knight <knight AT wadsworth DOT org>
> Subject: Re: Amanda client on Redhat 2.4.9-31
> 
> 
> Good questions all...
> 
> [root@mssarc etc]# more redhat-release
> Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)
> 
> An upgrade really isn't an option - this is a turn-key OCR system.
> 
> We are moving to amanda here since we've been unable to move enough
> data to the local tape drive to backup the system, it is currently
> using a simple dump script and it fails when the 2nd tape volume is
> required. Amanda to a server with a larger drive should resolve the
> issue handily.
> 
> The file system we are trying to dump /iarc/vol is a local partition,
> not NFS and not a directory.
> 
> [root@mssarc etc]# df -kl /iarc/vol
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda12            57230108  37611092  16711856  70% /iarc/vol
> 
> [root@mssarc etc]# mount | grep iarc
> /dev/sda12 on /iarc/vol type ext2 (rw)
> 
> ***   Now I'm wondering if we could somehow be invoking a dump that
>       does not handle ext2 file structure.
> 
> Our (failing) dump script uses /sbin/dump for partition /iarc/vol
> 
> From the debug file - we are defining DUMP="/sbin/dump"
> 
> amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/local/bin" sbindir="/usr/local/sbin"
> amandad:        libexecdir="/usr/local/libexec" mandir="/usr/local/man"
> amandad:        AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda" AMANDA_DBGDIR="/tmp/amanda"
> amandad:        CONFIG_DIR="/usr/local/etc/amanda" DEV_PREFIX="/dev/"
> amandad:        RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump"
> amandad:        RESTORE="/sbin/restore" VDUMP=UNDEF VRESTORE=UNDEF
> amandad:        XFSDUMP=UNDEF XFSRESTORE=UNDEF VXDUMP=UNDEF VXRESTORE=UNDEF
> amandad:        SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient" GNUTAR="/bin/gtar"
> 
> 
> It 'looks' like we are invoking the right executable.
> 
> amandad: time 0.002: bsd security: remote host nnewton.wadsworth.org user
> amanda  local user amanda
> amandad: time 0.002: amandahosts security check passed
> amandad: time 0.002: running service "/usr/local/libexec/selfcheck"
> amandad: time 0.008: sending REP packet:
> ----
> Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 009-00098E80 SEQ 1096907538
> OPTIONS features=fffffeff9ffe0f;
> ERROR [could not access /dev/sda12 (/iarc/vol): Permission denied]
> OK /sbin/dump executable
> OK /etc/dumpdates read/writable
> OK /dev/null read/writable
> 
> 
> 
> I have tried changing the group for the amanda user in /etc/passwd,
> group root (0), sys (3) and disk (6). To no avail. We have also tried
> both sys and disk in the inetd configuration file [reluctant to set
> it to root (0) there].
> 
> The only error in the debug file is pretty much the one you would expect
> given the amcheck output.
> 
> ERROR [could not access /dev/sda12 (/iarc/vol): Permission denied]
> OK /sbin/dump executable
> 
> 
> ---
>    Brian R Cuttler                 brian.cuttler AT wadsworth DOT org
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>