--On Wednesday, May 18, 2005 17:50:24 +0100 Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator 
<chuck AT smtl.co DOT uk> wrote:

> Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 137194148 KB disk space available, that's
> plenty
> ERROR: cannot overwrite active tape DailySet101
>        (expecting a new tape)
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/curinfo: does not exist
> NOTE: it will be created on the next run
> NOTE: index dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet1/index: does not exist
> Server check took 0.012 seconds
>  
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> ERROR: server.domain.co.uk: [access as amanda not allowed from
> amanda AT server.doman.co DOT uk] open of /home/amanda/.amandahosts failed

Looks like your amanda user doesn't have read permissions on
 /home/amanda/.amandahosts (or it doesn't exist, or the amanda user
doesn't have execute permissions on the upper level  directories
(/home and/or /home/amanda).

Frank

> Client check: 1 host checked in 0.012 seconds, 1 problem found
>  
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p2)
> 
> Hey something different but I am running amcheck as amanda user
> su amanda -c "/usr/sbin/amcheck DailySet1"
> 
> 



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