You are actually supposed to run amrecover as root...which makes sense being that would be the account that would be doing a restore or a recover typically.
Don Tom Van de Wiele wrote: >Hello list > >I have a backupserver with two partitions on it that need to be backup'd >+ 2 clients. > >I have a .amandahosts in the amanda user's $HOME. It has this in it: > >[cut] >hostname.eduline.be amanda >[/cut] > >To make backups, this works fine. But when I want to amrecover files, I >get that amanda authhosts failed. When I change the user to "root" >instead of "amanda", then amrecover works. Is there a more sudle way >then to always change that user in that file? > >(BTW, I applied the stream_client patch, recompiled and amrecover works) > >Kind regards > >-- Tom > > >