>... no dice. > >I've added cain root to .amandahosts Here are some other things to check:
* Verify that .amandahosts is in the home directory of "amanda" on whatever machine "cain" is connecting to. * Make sure it is owned by "amanda" and that user "amanda" can get through all the directories down to it and that the modes are 0600 or 0400. * Make sure uid 509 is associated with "amanda". * Make sure there aren't any trailing blanks on the line (I seem to recall fixing that bug a while back, but don't remember if it's been released). If none of that helps, cd to common-src and "make security". Run that on your amidxtaped machine *as "amanda"*. Answer the questions from this input: bsd security: remote host cain user root local user amanda It will run the same security checks but with more verbose output. >I should tell you these hosts are not in DNS. Only resoved by the hosts >file. Can this have a negative effect on amanda's recovery process? It shouldn't, once everything gets set up. Amanda just calls the standard gethostby* routines. It doesn't know anything specifically about DNS, for instance. You might want to change the /etc/hosts entry for cain, though. I'm guessing it looks something like this: A.B.C.D cain cain.usace.army.mil If you make it like this: A.B.C.D cain.usace.army.mil cain the reverse lookup will give you the full name. >- db John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]