On Fri, 23 May 2003 at 10:51am, manjit AT notay DOT net wrote

> but... when i do amdump i get failed messages indicating that the specified 
> drives where offline, why is this???? 
> 
> the Amanda user has full read, write execute permissions to the required 
> directory and im backing up local drives, ie in disklist ive said 
> 
> localhost etc etc. 

Don't use localhost, as has been said by others.

Are you using inetd or xinetd?  What does your amanda entry look like?  
What's in /tmp/amanda/amdandad*debug.

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