On Wednesday 07 April 2004 03:40, pascal thomas wrote:
>What have I done wrong in this case?
>
>[root@amd450 amanda]# su -
>[root@amd450 root]# amrecover tagesbackup
>AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3. Contacting server on localhost ...
>220 amd450 AMANDA index server (2.4.3) ready.
>500 Access not allowed: [access as amanda not allowed from
> root@amd450] amandahostsauth failed [root@amd450 root]# whoami
>root
>[root@amd450 root]#
>
>entries in my .amandahosts file:
>
>localhost amanda
>localhost root
>localhost.localdomain amanda
>localhost.localdomain root

And once again, the docs and the FAQ are ignored.  The use of 
localhost will bite you, and just did.  Replace that with the FQDN, 
resolvable in the /etc/hosts file, or with the machines ip address.
There may be other problems, but thats the first step.

>backupstorm.medienpartner.de amanda
>backupstorm.medienpartner.de root
>backupstorm root
>backupstorm amanda
>amd450.medienpartner.de amanda
>amd450.medienpartner.de root
>
>
>With regards and thanks in advance to the one who hast the right
> answer
>
>pascal

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