Hi Frank,

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:03 -0600, Frank Smith wrote:
> mario wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 08:40 -0600, Frank Smith wrote:
> >> mario wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:12 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> >>>> mario wrote:
> >>>>> Hello List,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> i am running Amanda version 2.4.5 on Ubuntu Breezy and i get this error:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> These dumps were to tape TEST-2.
> >>>>> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.
> >>>>> The next new tape already labelled is: TEST-3.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> >>>>>   planner: ERROR testserverNAK :  user backup from testserver is not
> >>>>> allowed to execute the service noop: Please add "amdump" to the line
> >>>>> in /root/.amandahosts
> >>>>>   testserver      /dev/sda2 RESULTS MISSING
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> But amdump is already in /root/.amandahosts:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> cat /root/.amandahosts
> >>>>> localhost root amdump
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   
> >>>> why localhost? why root? The message tell you it's testserver and backup.
> >>>>
> >>>> add: testserver backup amdump
> >>>>
> >>> I still get the same error. Looks like localhost gets resolved to
> >>> testserver?
> >> Check /etc/hosts.  Some distros don't separate the localhost entry
> >> from the actual hostname (i.e., put localhost on the real IP and
> >> not just on 127.0.0.1)
> > 
> > My /etc/hosts:
> > 
> > 127.0.0.1             localhost
> > 192.168.178.20    localhost testserver
> > 
> > # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> > ::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> > fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> > ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> > ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> > ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> > ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
> > 
> > 
> > That looks good to me. Did you mean it like that?
> > 
> Lookups using /etc/hosts are linear, from top to bottom, scanning
> each line until a match is found.  In your case, the first name
> that matches 192.168.178.20 is 'localhost'.  Try either reversing
> the order of the names on the 192.xx line or removing the localhost
> entry from that line.  Personally, I only have localhost assigned
> to the loopback address (127.0.0.1), but there may be some reason
> for listing it on both lines.

Even if i reverse the lines, or change it to:
192.168.178.20    testserver
127.0.0.1         localhost

I still get the same error.

Any further ideas?

Thanks, Mario