On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 at 2:06pm, Allen Liu --- work wrote

> I ran amcheck -c and got following error msg. the client 'pete' and server
> 'spike' are same machine.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> spike:amanda:/myapp/am/sbin$./amcheck -c fst
> 
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> ERROR: pete: [can not read/write /etc/amandates: No such file or directory]
> Client check: 1 host checked in 1.184 seconds, 1 problem found
> 
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p1)
> spike:amanda:/myapp/am/sbin$
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> I can't find where the file 'amandates' is.

That's because it doesn't exist, which is what amanda is telling you.  You 
need to 'touch /etc/amandates', and then chown it to the user:group you're 
running amanda as.

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