And I am assuming from the errors that I got it will not work because the config expects .amandahosts to be in /var/lib/amanda.
I've also sorted my authority problem on sda*'s - in the xinetd service config some documentation I had stated that the group = amanda. Changing this to "disk" made it work - are there any experts who would like to let me know if this is correct - it works anyway - my amcheck is now clean. Thanks to everyone who helped me on this. It was quite a learning curve - I've eventually got the red hat 7.2 rpms out of the box to work - using my old configuration files which I restored from backups - made by amanda of course. Regards Kevin Passey -----Original Message----- From: Martin, Jeremy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2003 13:43 To: Kevin Passey Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: UPDATE - Configuring RH7.2 Amanda out of the box - error accessing Amanda hosts file. > Well - I bit the bullet and removed amanda and did a > re-install using the > RPM from my RH7.2 disks. > > Doing that I was able to determine that the RH7.2 > configuration expects the > .amandahosts file to be in /var/lib/amanda - I presume that's > why it wasn't > working - can anybody clarify this for me. Hi, I noticed this too with a RedHat 9 install. When installing RedHat if you tell it to install amanda, it creates the amanda account and ets /var/lib/amanda/ as its home directory, it looks like. If you don't install amanda during the RedHat install and install it manually later you'll need to set up a new amanda account which by default uses /home/amanda/ for ~