On Wednesday 12 April 2006 08:46, stan wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:31:35AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 06:27, stan wrote:
>> >On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:40:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 18:04, stan wrote:
>> >> >On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:46:38PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> >> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:23, stan wrote:
>> >> >> >On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:34:17PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> >> >> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:59, stan wrote:
>> >> >> >> >I'm setting up a new Ubuntu box as my next generation
>> >> >> >> > Amanda server. Somehow the /etc/hosts file for this
>> >> >> >> > machine was created looking like this:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> FQDN's or addresses, but see below.
>>
>> I'm reminded of the lines displayed rather prominantly on the cover
>> of the manual of what was pretty close to the first *decent*
>> consumer audio tape recorder marketed in the middle 1950's here in
>> the states, the Bell RT-7, where it said:
>>
>>    PLEASE try our way first!
>
>I _think_ at this point in time, I'm doing it precisely the way you
> are suggesting (see previous post to this thread), but I till have
> issues with _some- of the DLE's, and the exclude file on the Amanda
> host _inly_. Very puzzling.
>
>Remember this all started when I changed /etc/hosts to fix sendmail.

and I'm now leaning toward there being a problem between naming the 
machine amanda, and having a user named amanda.  But I can't speak to 
the interactions that might bring about, never having tried that here.

Perhaps someone else can adress that subject?

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