On Tuesday 18 April 2006 09:37, Iulian Topliceanu wrote:
>Hi,
>
>When I run amcheck, I get the following error:
>
>Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>--------------------------------
>ERROR: NAK bacchus: access as amanda not allowed from
>[email protected]: /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts: incorrect
>permissions; file must be accessible only by its owner

Thats correct, it must be owned by the user running amanda, and the 
perms must be set to 0600.

>Client check: 16 hosts checked in 1.123 seconds, 1 problem found
>
>I'm running amanda 2.5.0 on the server and so on the client.
>
>My .amandahosts on the client looks like:
>
>-rw-r--r--    1 amanda   disk          398 Apr 11 14:56 .amandahosts
>
>and contains the alphabetical name of the amanda server, so the IP of
>the amanda server but I still get this error.
>
>I didn't have any problems till I upgraded both systems (server and
>client) to amanda 2.5.0 and the .amandahosts file remained unchanged.
>
>Before doing the upgrade, I was running amanda 2.4.5 and everything
> was fine.
>
>Regards,
>Iulian Topliceanu

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