First off, many thanks for the help!
> > when I run amcheck confname, in /tmp/amanda/ it creates an > > amcheck.{timestamp}.debug, however the contents of that are only three > > lines: > > > > amcheck: debug 1 pid 619 ruid 34 euid 0 start time Thu Oct 4 15:24 :37 2001 > > amcheck: dgram_bind: sofket bound to 0.0.0.0.1008 > > amcheck: pid 619 finish time Thu Oct 4 15:25:07 2001 > > OK, it's not even trying to launch selfcheck. Does > /usr/local/libexec/selfcheck exist? What do your /etc/inetd.conf (or > /etc/xinetd.d/am*) entries look like? How exactly did you ./configure > amanda on backup? selfcheck exists inetd.conf: amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/local/libexec/amandad amandad amandaidx stream tcp nowait backup /usr/local/libexec/amindexd amindexd amidxtape stream tcp nowait backup /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped amidxtaped I ran ./configure --with-user=backup --with-group=disk --with-smbclient=/usr/local /samba/bin/smbclient I'd love to provide more information to narrow the search, but I'm afraid I don't know where to look! Many thanks, -Michael Blinn