... I installed amanda 2.4.1p1 from a binary release (freeware.sgi.com). ...
rundump: error [must be invoked by root]
Welcome to the world of running Amanda from what someone else built.
Whoever built that used --with-user=root (for who knows what reason).
That means you have to run it that
Dear all,
We have amanda-2.4.2p2 running here internally well. This is mostly on
Irix 6.5 machines. I also want to add a client machine running Irix 6.3
(upgrading is not an option at the moment). As there is no compiler on
this machine I installed amanda 2.4.1p1 from a binary release