On Thursday 07 February 2002 15:19, R. Bradley Tilley wrote: > When I run su amanda -c "amcheck daily" the backup server times out with > the selfcheck request timed out error. Believe it or not, this just started > happening, and I _haven't_ changed anything. > > The funny part is this: amdump works fine and runs nightly! It backs-up the > server, even tho amcheck says it's down. > > I'm using the latest stable version with RH7.2 The system has been running > fine for the last month (it's only a test setup so this isn't that big of a > problem). > > I have rechecked .amandahosts; made sure xinetd was setup properly; emptied > the hosts.deny file. Added ALL: ALL to the hosts.allow file, I doubled the > etimeout from 300 to 600, but amcheck still times out. > > Has anyone else ever encountered a similar problem? > > Thanks, > Brad
It was RH's fault!. I did an up2date on the rpm packages, and one of the packages overwrote my hosts file in /etc. When I recreated the hosts file as it was before the package upgrade, amanda worked fine! Lesson: Beware of updates!!! Do them, but be prepared to troubleshoot your apps because upgrades _can_ break things.
