On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am familiar with most of this as I use AMANDA to back up several > Macs (all pre- Leopard). The biggest difference I faced in creating a > client on specifically Leopard is that Leopard no longer has xinetd. > I had to quickly learn about building a plist for Mac's LaunchDaemon > service to allow the AMANDA server to connect to the client over the > internet.
There are plist files in contrib/macosx in the source distribution, by the way. > This new twist went pretty well and the server is now > talking to the client yet, with an amcheck, I am getting > > "ERROR: NAK maclaptop: user amanda from > amandaserver.ucsd.edu is not allowed to execute the service > noop: /Users/amanda/.amandahosts: owned by id 5000, should be > 7" > > The AMANDA user on the client is uid 5000. Why is it insisting on > "7"? And the even stranger part is that the "should be" uid can change > for different amcheck executions. It is often 7 but sometimes it is > "134217735". I've tried changing the uid of the .amandahosts file to > be owned by uid 7 for the times it seems it to want it to be owned by 7 > and then I get > > "ERROR: NAK cass74: user amanda from cass251.ucsd.edu is not > allowed to execute the service noop: cannot open > /Users/amanda/.amandahosts: Permission denied" > > Anyone have any ideas? Doug Kingston reported a different incarnation of what I believe to be the same bug[1] -- please try amanda-2.6.0p1 and let us know if you still see the problem. You can probably also fix the problem by removing any auth_debug directives from your config file. Dustin [1] http://marc.info/?t=120597209900007&r=1&w=2 -- Storage Software Engineer http://www.zmanda.com