Fernan Aguero wrote:

+----[ Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu> (13.Oct.2004 11:58):
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| On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:42:33AM -0300, Fernan Aguero enlightened us:
| > I did the installation as root, of course. I'm not using the
| > amanda sources 'as is', however, but through the added layer
| > of the FreeBSD ports system. I doubt this can cause any
| > trouble, I've already checked the port's Makefile and it is
| > not overriding amanda's 'install' target ... it is just
| > setting some default configure options ...

| | Check your xinetd settings. I bet you have user amanda on your system, but

| xinetd is trying to run it as user operator, or vice versa.

| | Matt

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Hmm ... this is what I have in inetd.conf:

amandaidx stream tcp nowait amanda /usr/local/libexec/amanda/amindexd   amindexd
amidxtape stream tcp nowait amanda /usr/local/libexec/amanda/amidxtaped 
amidxtaped
amanda    dgram  udp wait   amanda /usr/local/libexec/amanda/amandad    amandad

/Andreas