On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 03:23:15PM -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:06 PM, stan <stanb AT panix DOT com> wrote:
> > OK, now we have uncovered what is probably the root cause of my problems:
> 
> Yay!
> 
> > It exists and seems to have a set of permissions that I would think would
> > work.
> 
> Try running 'ldd' on it -- perhaps it cannot find the amanda libraries
> it links against?

Seems that you are on the right track:

amanda@amanda:/opt/amanda.2.6.1_02172009/sbin$ ldd
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/auto/Amanda/Types/libTypes.so
        libamglue.so => not found
                libamanda-2.6.1.so => not found
                libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00002b7c9f05f000)
                libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 
(0x00002b7c9f2e0000)
                libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b7c9f4e3000)
                libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 
(0x00002b7c9f6e8000)
                libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 
(0x00002b7c9f92c000)
                librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00002b7c9fb30000)
                libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 
(0x00002b7c9fd3a000)
                libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x00002b7ca0007000)
                /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x00002b7ca0220000)
                libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002b7ca0436000)
                libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002b7ca0651000)
                /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000555555554000)

Any thoughts as to how to correct this?
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