New installation of Amanda 2.4.4p2i (compiled from source) on Mandrake 10.0

Trying to get it running on the local (tape server) host first and I'm 
getting permission denied errors on the disk I'm trying to back up (root 
partition) and the /etc/dumpdates file. 

I checked/fixed permissions, group membership, xinetd.d, .amandahosts, 
disklist... (see below)   I'm missing something here, but can't figure 
out what.

If it makes any difference, hardware is a Dell PE6150, disks are a 5*146G 
raid-5 array on a PERC3 controller. sda1 is the 20G / partition, 500M used. 

Thanks, 

Bram


$amcheck (edited for brevity)
ERROR: fred: [could not access /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 (sda1): 
Permission denied]
ERROR: fred: [can not read/write /etc/dumpdates: Permission denied]

$more /etc/group (edited for brevity)
root:x:0:amanda
disk:x:6:amanda

$ls -l /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/ 
brw-r-----  1 root root 8, 1 Dec 31  1969 part1

$ls -l /etc/dumpdates 
-rw-rw-r--  1 root disk 0 May 11 11:20 /etc/dumpdates

$more /etc/xinetd.d/amandad
service amanda
{
        disable                 = no
        socket_type             = dgram
        wait                    = yes
        user                    = amanda
        server                  = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
}

$more .amandahosts
fred.ravenclaw amanda

$more usr/local/etc/amanda/daily_sys/disklist (edited for brevity)
fred sda1 always-full -1 local