Jennifer Luisi schrieb:
> Okay, I figured out what my silly little problem was.  Apparently, you
> need to turn on amanda on your server before anything will work.  

An interesting observation:
software has to be started to work

;)

> It's
> interesting that there isn't a useful error to point out such a basic
> lack.  Amcheck was happy and the logs just had connection timeout
> errors.  The timeout errors are certainly logical, they just encompass a
> lot more than, "Hey, you, start the software!"

Maybe you could let us know what kind of info would have helped you to
"start the software" before contacting the list?

It is always possible to improve the documentation.

Thanks, Stefan