Hi I have run the rpm's which creates a Amanda user in the /etc/passed
file but does not create a /home dir but
creates /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts file instead.

Please confrim list if I am also to have a /home/amanda directory.

Cheers

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 12:11 -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
> 
> --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"
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
>