Gene Heskett wrote:
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Yes, start with howto-auth.txt in the tarballs doc directory to do it how I am, which probably isn't the ultimate model, but it works for me.

This looks like it was because the file /etc/amandates was missing.  Apparently
the install does not create it.  I found an error in the auth.log...

Mar 22 00:00:01 r4p17 sendsize[90503]: error [opening /etc/amandates: No such 
file or directory]

I don't know what /etc/amandates is for but my backups seem much happier with 
it.

Thanks for your help!