>I just spent most of a day confused. And no, this isn't my normal state. :)
Then you're doing a whole lot better tham I am. :-)
>I did't understand how the amanda host is going to be able to log into all of
>the client machines, as I never told it any passwords on those machines (as wi
>th the samba shares). ...
Amanda does not use password authentication between hosts. It trusts
you to have your host names and IP addresses properly configured, to
have the programs installed properly (setuid root) and to have set up
.amandahosts in the Amanda user home directory on the client to allow
access from the server.
>> If you run the amandad program by hand as the Amanda user on the
>> client, what happens? It should sit for about 30 seconds and then
>> terminate.
>
>What happens? It says "command not found" of course! ...
Well, I suppose it could be more explicit and say that amandad is not
going to be in your default PATH so you'll have to give it the complete
path. For instance on my systems it would be /opt/amanda/libexec/amandad.
>Apparently, at some point,
>I was supposed to install some software on the client machines...
You either need to install all of Amanda just like you did on the server,
or else you can reduce the size a little and add --without-server on
./configure when you do the client. IMO, this is not worth the effort.
>... But it doesn't have instructions on installing amandad.
No offense intended, but I guess most folks figure it's obvious that
you need to install Amanda to be able to run Amanda. :-)
And you need to install more than just amandad. As mentioned above,
you pretty much need to do the same thing you did on the server.
>1. Where in the documentation does it tell me about installing amandad on each
>client?
It's self evident (just kidding :-).
>2. Is each client supposed to have it's own disklist and amanda.conf file too?
> I don't think so, but I thought I would check.
No, they don't need any configuration files other than .amandahosts as
I mentioned above.
>Thanks for any help. And if the documentation is truly missing a section on
>installing amandad (and other files) onto the client machines, maybe it should
>be updated?
Feel free to write up the necessary changes and post them.
>--- Eric
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
