HOST DOWN error connecting to new client

[Matt Emmott]

Hi,   I just compiled and installed Amanda 2.5.0p2 as a client on a Red Hat Enterprise ES 4 machine. Our server (which has been running for years) is a Red Hat 8 machine running Amanda 2.4.2p2. I’ve modified the disklist file in the archive section of our server to only back up the new server, named owl, via the following line:   owl /home/path/to/files user-tar   However, when I try to run /usr/sbin/amcheck Archive, I get the following error:   =============================================================== Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /usr/amandatmp: 10851752 KB disk space available, that's plenty ERROR: label DailySet103 doesn't match labelstr "^archive[0-9][0-9]*$"        (expecting tape archive09 or a new tape) NOTE: skipping tape-writable test NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/Archive/curinfo/owl: does not exist NOTE: index dir /var/lib/amanda/Archive/index/owl: does not exist Server check took 18.177 seconds   Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- WARNING: owl: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 29.998 seconds, 1 problem found ===============================================================   This was just a test run, so the bad tape error is ok, and I assume the info and index errors are ok, since a backup has never been run. The problem is with the Host Down error. I’ve enabled Amanda in xinetd.d, and restarted xinetd. a chkconfig –-list tells me that Amanda is up and running. There is no firewall on the server, and hosts.deny is empty.   What else can I look at to figure out why this isn’t connecting?   Thanks, Matt