Jeremy Wadsack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> I am getting consistent timeout errors on a couple hosts. This doesn't
> occur when I run amcheck, just during a dump. I'm using tar on all
> hosts, so it's not a Linux dump issue. These two hosts are conspicuous
> because they are old (so kernel, libraries and software all could be
> out of date).

> In both cases, the tail of /tmp/amand/amandad.debug looks like this:

> amandad: dgram_recv: recvfrom() failed: Connection refused
> amandad: waiting for ack: Connection refused, giving up!

> The confusing thing is that it handles the sendsize call just fine
> without a failed connection. This looks (but I'm not positive) like
> the connection from the client to the server is failing, which I
> didn't know it did.

> Finally, these systems seem to have tar 1.12 (not patched). I am in
> the process of upgrading to the latest version, but the tar issues are
> not listed in the documentation as causing a 'timeout' error, so I
> don't think that's going to fix it.

> Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts or insight, I'd appreciate it.

Just to follow up on this. I upgraded the two hosts to the latest tar
and still get timeouts. I haven't seen this kind of thing in the
archives. Does anyone have a clue what's going on here?

TIA,

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Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group

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