On Friday 23 March 2007, Joe Konecny wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
><snip>
>
>> 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!

I believe, and somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but ISTR that file needs 
to be touched by root, 'chown'ed to 'amanda:disk' or whatever your amanda 
user is named: and a member of that :group, then chmod'ed to 0600, so 
that 'amanda' is the only normal user with rights to that file.  I use 
amanda:disk here cause then I don't have to remember who the operator for 
amanda is.

It will then be maintained in an uptodate status from then on by the 
amdump supervisory utils.  Its general format will resemble this:
===================================
/GenesAmandaHelper-0.6 0 1174288560
/GenesAmandaHelper-0.6 1 1174453248
/GenesAmandaHelper-0.6 2 1174541095
/GenesAmandaHelper-0.6 3 1174625228
[snip another 100k of different pathlistings]
===================================
The number after the path is the level, and I'm not sure what the last 
number is, possibly a timestamp, but I've NDI what notation format that 
represents.  Swahili to this old fart.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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