On Saturday 08 January 2005 17:19, David Newman wrote:
>On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 06 January 2005 21:25, David Newman wrote:
>>> Greetings. I have installed Amanda on two FreeBSD 5.2.1 boxes,
>>> Host A and Host B. Host A is the Amanda server, and has the
>>> amanda-server package installed from ports. Host B has the
>>> amanda-client package. I've added a couple of Host B's partitions
>>> in Host A's disklist.
>>>
>>> I'm getting this error in the nightly Amanda reports:
>>>
>>> hostb /usr/home lev 0 FAILED [disk /usr/home, all estimate
>>> failed] hostb /var lev 0 FAILED [disk /var, all estimate failed]
>>>
>>> The backups on host A are working fine. On the client (host B)
>>> I've followed the directions here:
>>>
>>> http://amanda.sourceforge.net/docs/install.html#id2539781
>>>
>>> There is no firewall or other external impediment between the two
>>> boxes.
>>>
>>> Both boxes run amanda as user "operator" which by default in
>>> FreeBSD has no home directory. I have placed identical
>>> .amandahosts files in the root directory of both boxes.
>>>
>>> Any clues as to why backups of Host B are failing?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> dn
>>
>> Are there any logs being generated on host B from amanda's
>> activities?
>>
>> You may have to change the operator to a user with a valid home
>> dir. I've always, from day one, had a user amanda, who was a
>> member of group disk.
>
>Thanks, I think this was the problem. I've created "amanda" accounts
> on both machines and they now communicate.
>
>Note to those installing from the BSD ports collection: You'll need
> to modify the amanda-server Makefile to list "amanda" (or whomever)
> as your tape operator.

Unforch, I'm not familiar with the 'ports' of BSD.  However, all this 
is normally specified when the configuration script is run from a 
tarball install.  Here is mine:
----------------
#!/bin/sh
# since I'm always forgetting to su amanda...
if [ `whoami` != 'amanda' ]; then
 echo
 echo "!!!!!!!!!!!! Warning !!!!!!!!!!!!"
 echo "Amanda needs to be configured and built by the user amanda,"
 echo "but must be installed by user root."
 echo
 exit 1
fi
make clean
rm -f config.status config.cache
./configure --with-user=amanda \
 --with-group=disk \
 --with-owner=amanda \
 --with-gnu-ld \
 --prefix=/usr/local \
 --with-tapedev="FILE:/amandatapes" \
 --with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ \
 --with-tape-server=coyote.coyote.den \
 --with-amandahosts \
 --with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda

make
-------------------------
I run this on any new snapshot Jean-Louis puts up, and when this is 
done, I become root again and do the make install, and an ldconfig to 
bring the library linkages up to date.

I can install a new tarball in about 5 minutes on this linux box.

>
>However, the problem may also have been that I was using a CNAME
> rather than the canonical hostname for the client in .amandahosts.
> I don't know which of these two fixed the comm problem.
>
>By the way, I set up the same password for the amanda accounts on
> both machines. Is this required? I don't see anything in the
> commands about passwords being used at all.
>
>dn

The ~/amanda/.amandahosts file only needs the FQDN of the machine, and 
the user in it.  Or at least thats all there is in mine:


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