I'm setting up a new Ubuntu box as my next generation Amanda server. Somehow the /etc/hosts file for this machine was created looking like this:
170.85.113.24 localhost.localdomain localhost At least _I think_ this was what was there. I did not keep a copy, as I thought I new how to set up a hosts file. Little did I know :-( I really did not pick up on this for quite some time, Finally i tracing down why email from this machine would not work I noticed this. So I changed it to: 127.0.0.1 localhost 170.85.113.24 amanda amanda.meadwestvaco.com But now I seem to have confused Amanda, for instance if I run amcheck, I get: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- ERROR: amanda: [Can't open exclude file '/opt/amanda/lib/gnutar_exclude_list': No such file or directory] ERROR: amanda: [could not access /dumpdisk (/dumpdisk): No such file or directory] ERROR: amanda: [could not access /data_backups (/data_backups): No such file or directory] These are local disk on the Amanda machine (whose name is amanda logically enough). Looking at the backups of the previous machine (which ran an earlier version of Amanda), ( it was a Debian machine BTW). I find that the hosts file on it looked like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 170.85.109.24 debian debian.meadwestvaco.com Yes, same IP address, and a different name. I changed that in the DNS for clarity. I guess I really don't know what I am doing here :-( Can anyone show me the error of my ways? -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967