>... We recently upgraded one of our Amanda servers to Redhat 7.1
>(from Redhat 6.2), and we experienced some difficulties with the backup
>after that. ...
In the process, did you switch to running amandad from xinetd (instead
of inetd)? Did you fix the xinetd config file (the RPM's have it wrong,
last I heard). There are examples in the Amanda FAQ. In particular,
you probably want "groups yes".
>But I still don't understand why this issue arose in the first place. Our
>nsswitch.conf file calls for local files to be searched before the NIS maps
>are consulted for group information:
>...
>Recall that this is all happening on one system, the server system. Why
>isn't /etc/group consulted, thereby showing amanda's membership in the adm
>group? ...
You're asking the wrong people. Amanda does not do anything with groups.
Xinetd initializes all that for the services it starts (e.g. amandad).
You need to ask the xinetd/Redhat folks.
> - Mike
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
