If you are using RedHat 7 you might want to try the amanda 2.4.2 rpm
from RedHat's rawhide ftp. It works well for me.
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
Raymond Bramwell wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> I was just wondering if anyone has successfully configured amanda to
> backup clients running xinetd rather than inetd!
> If so could someone let me know what you need to put in /etc/xinetd.conf
> 'cos I'm really stumped, I've tried the following:
>
> service amanda
> {
> flags = REUSE NAMEINARGS
> socket_type = dgram
> protocol = udp
> wait = yes
> user = backup
> server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
> server_args = amandad
> }
>
> And tried permutations of missing out the flags and server_args
> arguments. In all these cases when I run amcheck on the amanda
> server it fails on this client with permission denied errors for each
> disk and the dumpdates file. Before you ask, no its not
> a permissions problem because when I use inetd with:
>
> amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/local/libexec/amandad amandad
>
> in /etc/inetd.conf it works fine! The thing is I need to be using
> xinetd and not inetd. Can anyone help?
>
> Ray.
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