I am having a permission problem with amrecover that makes no sense to me. Please cc me on any replies. I am a memebr of the list but I haven't seen any mail in a while
$ sudo amrecover -C daily1 -s chena AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3b2. Contacting server on chena ... 220 chena AMANDA index server (2.4.3b2) ready. 200 Access OK Setting restore date to today (2003-03-14) 200 Working date set to 2003-03-14. 200 Config set to daily1. 200 Dump host set to thames. Trying disk /export ... Trying disk md0 ... Can't determine disk and mount point from $CWD '/export/recover' amrecover> setdisk /export/private Scanning /scratch/amanda... 200 Disk set to /export/private. amrecover> cd haxume/Accounting /export/private/haxume/Accounting amrecover> setdate 2003-03-05 200 Working date set to 2003-03-05. amrecover> add "Acct Rec 03.xls" Added /haxume/Accounting/Acct Rec 03.xls amrecover> extract Extracting files using tape drive /dev/ait2 on host thames. The following tapes are needed: C83256 Restoring files into directory /export/recover Continue? [Y/n]: y Load tape C83256 now Continue? [Y/n/t]: y amrecover: error reading tape: Connection reset by peer extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 1 The amidxtaped file shows: $ cat amidxtaped.20030314110107.debug amidxtaped: debug 1 pid 25567 ruid 250 euid 250 start time Fri Mar 14 11:01:07 2003 amidxtaped: version 2.4.3b2 > SECURITY USER root bsd security: remote host thames user root local user amanda check failed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed amidxtaped: security check failed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed security check failed: [access as amanda not allowed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] amandahostsauth failed amidxtaped: pid 25567 finish time Fri Mar 14 11:01:07 2003 On Chena I have in .amandahosts: thames root thames amanda On Thames: chena amanda chena root The tape is loaded in the drive and I have checked it with dd to be sure it is readable. Both thames and chena are in /etc/hosts. Netstat shows an established connection between thames and chena:amadaidx. I've restored using amrecover before so why doesn't amanda allow me to connect now? -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services) 310-342-3602 [EMAIL PROTECTED]