Thanks for your interest and replys guys, I think we're getting closer to a 
solution [I hope].
 
I'm using SuSE 8.2 (but using the amanda rpm from SuSE 9.0) - which I believe 
uses xinetd.
Not that I know the difference. I'm afraid I'm a bit of a newbie in all areas, 
so please bare with me.
 
Presumably this is a problem seeing as I have edited the inetd.conf instead of 
a xinetd.conf? Why would there be a inetd.conf if SuSE is using xinetd?
 
And Gene, I have set all amanda files to disable=no within /etc/xinet.d/ as you 
suggested in a previous post.
 
Thanks,
Dean.