On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 at 5:26pm, Pablo Quinta Vidal wrote

> >Doubtful.  Do any files appear in /tmp/amanda?  Specifically
> >/tmp/amanda/amandad*debug would be helpful.  What OS are you using?  Have
> >you setup (x)inetd appropriately?
> 
> I´m running AMANDA in Debian with kernel 2.4.20. The inetd is allright but 
> in a file in /tmp/amanda
> appears this:
> 
> amandad: time 0.011: sending ack:
> ________
> amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 000-403B0508 SEQ 1078488172
> ________
> 
> amandad: error [getpwuid(-1) fails]
> amandad: time 0.025: error [getpwuid(-1) fails]
> amandad: pid 2179 finish time Thu Mar 4 12:50:02 2004
> 
> 
> Remembet I have the NIS stopped.

Then you need to either fix NIS or define the amanda user locally on the 
server.

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