On Thursday 03 August 2006 08:58, Jeff Portwine wrote:
>> Are you 100% sure that you are looking at the correct files?
>> And there is no other "amandad" installed somewhere else, which is
>> invoked instead?  Also, someone else with a similar problem had mixed
>> up the hostnames in DNS, resulting in connecting to his test setup
>> instead.  What is in the debug files on that client (in /tmp/amanda
>> usually).
>
>I double checked and there is only the one amandad installed.
>
>> e.g.  you do have an environment with inetd on the server and xinetd
>> on the client.  Are you 100% sure that is what is invoked on the
>> client? When you replace the /usr/local/lebexec/amandad on the client
>> with a little shell script that writes some clear message in a debug
>> file, does it invoke that script?  As what user?
>
>When I checked the debug file, it does show the client_logon=root but I
>don't know why.   I tried replacing amandad with the script you suggested
>and this was the output:
>Thu Aug  3 06:55:11 EDT 2006
>uid=507(backup) gid=509(backup) groups=509(backup)
>  PID TTY          TIME CMD
>13066 ?        00:00:00 amandad
>Thu Aug  3 06:55:21 EDT 2006
>uid=507(backup) gid=509(backup) groups=509(backup)
>  PID TTY          TIME CMD
>13070 ?        00:00:00 amandad
>Thu Aug  3 06:55:32 EDT 2006
>uid=507(backup) gid=509(backup) groups=509(backup)
>  PID TTY          TIME CMD
>13075 ?        00:00:00 amandad
>
>So at that point it does appear to be running amandad as "backup"... but
>when it runs the real amandad the debug file shows CLIENT_LOGIN="root"
> and I don't know why.
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff

Because of the previous build/install as root, you may have to search the 
system and nuke anything amanda related, then reinstall.

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