I'm running it on a server with SuSE 8.0.  It came with the 8.0 distro, so I 
didn't need to compile anything.  Regarding security, there are also no 
Amanda kerberos port entries in my /etc/services by default.  

The strange thing is that I have tested Amanda in doing back ups of two other 
SuSE servers from backup.rnd.caribbeanblue.com.  The backups complete without 
any errors, and I'm not able to do amrecovers from them as well.  What I am 
seeing is that backup.rnd.caribbeanblue.com is able to back itself and other 
servers up, but for some reason, will not allow amrecover to work despite 
indexing.  

The backup server is accessing the clients, but the client (even if on the 
server) can not access the server.  .amandahosts has:

localhost amanda
localhost root
backup amanda
backup root
backup.rnd.caribbeanblue.com amanda
backup.rnd.caribbeanblue.com root  

What does work is amrestore, as in:
/usr/sbin/amrestore /dev/nst0 backup
This pulls the .o image file containing /etc off of tape.  However, it would 
be nice to just use amrecover for extracting needed files or directories.

Eric    


> On 8/27/02 2:16 PM, "Eric Swindell" <eric.swindell AT att DOT net> wrote:
> > Tony,
> >
> > I have "index yes" in amanda.conf.  I just ran:
> > /usr/sbin/amrecover -C daily -s backup.rnd.caribbeanblue.com -t
> > backup.rnd.caribbeanblue.com -d /dev/nst0
> >
> > amrecover still produces the same error:  Unexpected server end of file.
> >
> > I wish the debug files were more detailed.  What EOF could it be?
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > P.S.  I was in the Corps, but that is another story..
>
> Are you running on a BSD Variant?  I've found that on the server I wind up
> having to recompile with the switch --without-bsd-security in order to get
> anywhere.  Just a thought.
>
> Tony Shadwick
> Manager of Internet Services
> Strategic Technology Group
> 314-480-1324