Do you happen to have the amcheck output handy by chance? Does amcheck report any problems to connect to that client machine?
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Joseph Myers wrote: > I have AMANDA working on the server just fine. It is capable of backing up > two computers already. Now I have to work on the other 4. The problem is > the first 2 are running RedHat 7.1 and are thus using xinetd while the next > 4 are running RedHat 6.2 and are thus using inetd. I can not figure out > what the heck is wrong. Here is some info: > > in inetd.conf: > > amanda dgram udp wait amanda /usr/local/libexec/amandad > amandad > amandaidx stream tcp nowait amanda /usr/local/libexec/amindexd >amindexd > amidxtape stream tcp nowait amanda /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped >amidxtaped > > Here's the results from "netstat -a | grep -i amanda": > > > tcp 0 0 *:amandaidx *:* LISTEN > > udp 0 0 *:amanda *:* > > > I have the permissions set on all of the files so that Amanda can read, > write, and execute them. The .rhosts and .amandahosts files which are in > both the root and amanda directories look like this: > > xxx.ornl.gov amanda > > On the server, in /tmp/amanda/*.debug, I get this message: > > amcheck: debug 1 pid 15215 ruid 1000 euid 0 start time Tue Jan 8 10:26:10 > 2002 > amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.769 > amcheck: pid 15215 finish time Tue Jan 8 10:26:40 2002 > > The other two servers still work when I run amcheck so I don't think that > there's anything wrong with the server side. It appears to be a client > side problem. I am running the same version of Amanda on all of the > machines. Another thing that I've heard people talk about is the IPChains > firewall. We use an IPChains firewall.. but one of the other computers I > back up is the firewall and the all of the computers are behind this > firewall. So I can already backup another computer that is behind the > firewall with no changes made to the IPChains so I don't believe that this > is the problem. Please help me as soon as you can. I am stuck and this is > holding up a major project. Thanks for any help you can give me. > > Joey >