Hi, Gene,
> 
> The only thing that comes to mind quickly is probably related to the 
> question/statement "you do have a user amanda, who is a member of 
> group disk, don't you?"

Yes, of course.  I think that was done automagically when I installed
the amanda rpms.

As I said in my response to Frank, I'm going to rip everything out
(after saving my amanda.conf file and disklist file) and start over.

Regards,
Cait