Ok my amandahosts file looks like this.

dilmom.as400resource.com amanda 

I have run the following

chown amanda.amanda /home/amanda/.amandahosts
and
chmod 600 /home/amanda/.amandahosts

and this is what I get from amcheck

Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /usr/amanda/dumps: 16945236 KB disk space available, that's
plenty
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Tape kdpdfri label ok
NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/kdp/curinfo: does not exist
NOTE: it will be created on the next run
Server check took 0.020 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
ERROR: dilmom: [access as amanda not allowed from amanda@dilmom] open of
/home/amanda/.amandahosts failed
Client check: 1 host checked in 0.008 seconds, 1 problem found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2)

This is all from my disk crash - I decided for the sake of my sanity to
change everything back to use the amanda profile.

I can sort out the windows shares by creating another user on each PC.

What I am trying to acheive is to configure up the RH7.2 out of the box
amanda software.

I've managed to get all my config files back from the tapes.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Kevin


-----Original Message-----
From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:jon AT jgcomp DOT com]
Sent: 29 May 2003 17:42
To: Amanda (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Configuring RH7.2 Amanda out of the box - error accessing
amandah osts file.


On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 05:17:01PM +0100, Kevin Passey wrote:
> Can anybody help me here.
> 
> I am trying to configure Amanda that is shipped with RH7.2 and it is
giving
> me one error when I run AMCHECK.
> 
> Which basically says my amanda user cannot access the amandahosts file in
> /home/Administrator

Is "Administrator" the amanda user?

Is there a file, ".amandahosts" in ~Administrator?

What are its contents?

What are its permissions?

What additional information can you glean from the amcheck debug log in
/tmp/amanda?

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