On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 at 8:29am, Urte Fürst wrote

> I tried to play with the available options in the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file 
> first,
> but that did not help (maybe I did it the wrong way). Obviously I can get 
> around
> the problem, when I do not mount /usr/amanda from the other machine but 
> compile amanda
> on the new machine and install it locally. Then my amcheck reports 
> 'everything ok'
> and the backup will run.
> 
> So, it's not a showstopper for my backup. I'm simply wondering why this is 
> happening.
> Any ideas?

As a first guess, are you exporting /usr on the known-good client with the 
no_root_squash option?  If not, then root on NFS clients mounting the FS 
get mapped to 'nobody' on the server, which probably wouldn't work too 
well.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University