Chris,

I am wondering about the setup.  Really, on the clients you should have to do 
any configuring except for the following.  Simply install the amanda-client 
binaries, modify your inetd.conf or xinetd.conf to allow the service to be 
accessed.  Then create an amanda user in group operator.  From there you must 
navigate to the ~amanda  home dir ' cd ~amanda'.  Create .amandahosts and put 
in the name of the server and username allowed to access the client.  Here is 
a quick breakdown of the steps that I would do on the SCO machine.  I use 
FreeBSD x86, so my commands may be different than yours in some ways: 

# MODIFY INETD
cd /etc
edit inetd.conf 
# Amanda Tape Backup System
amanda stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/sbin/amandad amandad

# FIND AND RESTART THE INETD PROCESS ID
ps wax | grep inetd
kill -1 90

# CREATE THE AMANDA USER
useradd --name amanda --uid 500 --group operator --home /home/amanda --shell 
/sbin/nologin 

# CREATE THE AMANDA FILE WITH PERMISSIONS TO AMANDA USER!!
su amanda
cd ~amanda
touch .amandahosts
echo "server.yourdomain.com   amanda" > .amandahosts

# DOUBLE CHECK PERMISSIONS OF THE FILES
ls -la .amandahosts
chown amanda:operator *

Then go back to the server and make sure the client is in your disklist 
correctly.  I am assuming you've done all this, but I'm a little unsure about 
how you are checking the client.  I know that when I install my clients, I 
don't have ALL the binaries from the amanda dist, just the ones necessary to 
oeprate the client. The AMANDA server should be the only machine you run 
amcheck from.  Hope this helps, amanda can be tricky at times.

-- 
Cordially,
Chris Tusa
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On Thursday 08 August 2002 02:05 pm, you wrote:
> Chris,
>     here are more details on my setup:

On Thursday 08 August 2002 02:05 pm, Chris Johnson wrote:
> Chris,
>     here are more details on my setup:
>