>There's your problem -- the service isn't running. Maybe an xinetd >upgrade changed the functionality such that the three services in one >file method doesn't work any longer. In any case, break your >/etc/xinetd.d/amanda file into three files -- amanda, amandaidx, and >amidxtape -- and restart xinetd. All three services should then show up >in the above output.
I did that and no change... [root@slaw root]# amrecover uadaily AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on slaw.unterlaw.com ... amrecover: Error reading line from server: Connection reset by peer [root@slaw root]# amrecover uadaily AMRECOVER Version 2.4.2p2. Contacting server on slaw.unterlaw.com ... amrecover: cannot connect to slaw.unterlaw.com: Connection refused [root@slaw root]# I can, however, see amandaidx and amidxtape when I chkconfig... xinetd based services: chargen-udp: off chargen: off daytime-udp: off daytime: off echo-udp: off echo: off time-udp: off time: off amanda: on sgi_fam: on finger: off rexec: off rlogin: off rsh: off ntalk: off talk: off telnet: off wu-ftpd: off rsync: off amandaidx: on amidxtape: on >Well, I'm paranoid, so I always set up both ipchains and >hosts.{allow,deny} fairly tightly. Of course, I'm also in academentia, >where every host (just about) is connected to the Big Bad Internet. Ahhhhh...I see. I probably should be more paranoid...but we tightly configured our big bad checkpoint firewall, so I think we're okay.