On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 03:10:34PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote:
> 
> Well I am getting a little closer.
> 
> My cygwin client is a Window2003 server.
> 
> When I do a amcheck from the amanda server to the cygwin client behind the
> firewall I now get the following in the events log on the cygwin client.
> 
> "....The following information is part of the event: inetd: PID 2280:
> amanda: can't set uid 18: Permission denied.....
> 
> "...The following information is part of the event: inetd: PID 2764:
> /local/Amanda/amanda-2.4.5p1/libexec/amandad: exit status 0x100."
> 
> So now I am at least getting to the inetd service.
...
> 
> 6) This is my inetd.conf amanda entry.
> 
> amanda  dgram  udp  wait  SYSTEM  
> /local/Amanda/amanda-2.4.5p1/libexec/amandadamandad

> Do you see anything wrong.
> 


Is the amanda-user SYSTEM (uid = 18).

I forget how it needs to be on cygwin clients,
but on unix amandad would be started as the amanda-user,
not as "root".

Probably just a fluke of mailers, but in my mailreader the
two "amandad's" are run together with no space as in:

  .../libexec/amandadamandad

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