On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:05:29AM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> I have set up a client for amanda to backup. The amanda server runs as 
> user backup, so I set up the client to be run by backup as well. I am 
> getting errors in my amanda main report:
> 
> moe        /tmp/rt3.backup lev 0 FAILED [disk /tmp/rt3.backup, all estimate 
> failed]
> 
> 
> In the sendsize log I see the following line:
> 
> runtar: error [must be invoked by amanda]
> 

Looks like the executable was compiled with the default amanda user, "amanda".
Thus, it expects to be run only by a user named amanda.

After compile you decided to name the amanda user "backup".
The excutables on the client must be compiled to know of this.

   configure --with-?user?=backup ...

(Not certain of the exact "with" option).

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