Well.
I have checked the docs and faq.


I'm running the command as root as specified by the faq
http://amanda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fom?_recurse=1&file=5


>You see, I had 127.0.0.1 configured for user amanda for amdump. Amrecover HAS
to be run as root.


Also running the command specifying index server and tape server fails in the
same way as if it were localhost.

#amrecover CCC -s fastkernel.chem.utah.edu -t fastkernel.chem.utah.edu
AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p1. Contacting server on fastkernel.chem.utah.edu ...
amrecover: cannot connect to fastkernel.chem.utah.edu: Connection refused
[root@fastkernel xinetd.d]# cat /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts
##127.0.0.1  root
fastkernel.chem.utah.edu root

Thanks for your help
Rich