Dear Kevin, et al.,

My bug in which Amanda created its dump-holding directory with
permissions that made it impossible for it to write on that directory
--- it's fixed.  The fix was to change the ownership of one or more of
the files in /home/amanda.  I'm not sure which file ownerships made
the difference.

Anyway, only because the Amanda maintainers might be interested, I'm
attaching my Amanda installation script (install.sh).  Search for the
string "### Bug:" and you will see the difference that made the
difference.  It's curious as all get-out, and I'm wondering whether I
ran into some security fix in the version of Linux that I'm
running. (2.6.16, in this case).

Anyway, happy days, I have dumps now.  And they do indeed pass through
the ssh connection.  I commend you guys.  auth="ssh" is a significant
enhancement to Amanda.

-- Steve

Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant
Coolheads Consulting

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