On Friday 08 August 2008, stan wrote:
>I have an 2,5,2,p1 instance which I am working  through setting the recover
>side set up. The Amanda server is backing up 53 machines quite well. But
>as I start to play with amrecover on the clients, I find myself having to
>do "sthost". The machines are all in one domain, and I have the short names
>in the disklist.
>
>I'd really rather not have to put FQDN's in the disklist. Can anyone suggest
>what I might have configured incorrectly that would be cause this behavior?

But do you have all those aliases in each machines /etc/hosts file?  ISTR 
that's all I had to do, but I'm not doing it now, no need.

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