sendoro wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
>
> Pls help, I have spent a lot of time but I haven't yet succeded,
> I am getting this error "WARNING: xxx: selfcheck request timed out.
> Host down?"
> on amanda-2.4.2p2
> I trying to backup the client from the same machine which is tape
> server. so that I can backup its file system.
>
> 1.Here is my config. I configured the tape server as follows.
> ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=amanda
> --with-config=config --without-bsd-security --with-amandaho
> sts --with-index-server=xxx.domain.com
> --with-tape-server=xxxx.domain.com --with-tape-drive=/dev
> /nst0 --with-fqdn --with-gnutar=/usr/local/bin/tar
>
> 2. my xinted.conf has the following
> service amanda
> {
> socket_type dgram
> protocol udp
> wait yes
> user amanda
> group amanda
> server /usr/local/libexec/amandad
> port 10080
> }
> service amandaidx
> {
> socket_type stream
> protocol tcp
> wait no
> user amanda
> group amanda
> server /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
> port 10082
> log_type = SYSLOG authpriv
> log_on_success = HOST PID
> log_on_failure = HOST RECORD
> }
> service amidxtape
> {
> socket_type stream
> protocol tcp
> wait no
> user amanda
> group amanda
> server /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
> port 10083
> log_type = SYSLOG authpriv
> log_on_success = HOST PID
> log_on_failure = HOST RECORD
> }
> 3. I increased the ctimeout from 30secs to 60 secs in amanda.conf
> 4. I unistalled nfs
> 5. the /etc/services looks good.
> 6. Howerver when trying to rlogin -l amanda_user it is asking for
> password
>
> Kindly show me what to do. Thank you
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Hi, what you seem to be missing is the file ".amandahosts".
It must be in the home directory of the dump user (here "amanda") and
looks like the following:
host.to.give.access amanda
Where host.to.give.access would be your machine. However, amanda doesn't
seem to take ip adresses so give your machine name (try to ping yourself
with the name you give to see if the name is recognised by the system,
if not, add it to /etc/hosts).
That should be it, if you have more problem with this issue, i seggest
looking at the Faq-O-matic (there is a link on www.amanda.org) , it
saved me a great deal of time.
