Hello, Specify the user that will be requesting a recover in your .amandahosts file. In your example:
tony-lx.magpieway.net root Separate the host and the user with a blank space. It works for me. :) Regards, Pipoli > Hi, > > I have successfully installed and configured Amanda, and amcheck runs > successfully, as does amdump. > > However, amrecover (running as root) fails, with the message > "cannot connect to tony-lx.magpieway.net: connection refused" > > .amandahosts contains tony-lx.magpieway.net, which is the localhost, as well > as the tape server, which user amanda can happily access to do the backups. > > Evidently this is a permissions problem with root, but can anyone point me > in the right direction to fix it? Runnig Mandrake 9.1.
