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
> 

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