Gene Heskett wrote at 10:26 -0400 on Jul 18, 2014: > Trying to figure out why amanda can't backup this machine, one of the > things I noticed in /etc, is that on the shop box, which works, there is > not an /etc/xinetd.d but it has an old-xinetd.d with a single stanza > amanda file in it. > > An ls -lau shows that file, /etc/old-xinetd.d/amanda was apparently > accessed a few minutes ago by my amcheck from the server. > > However, on the new install on the machine that is failing to allow the > connection, there is an /etc/xinet.d, with an amanda file in it with an > old last access date/time, was not 'touched' when I ran the amcheck. Its > last access date/time is I believe, the date/time of the installation > itself. > > That amanda-common is 2.6.1p1 IIRC. > > amcheck says: > WARNING: lathe: selfcheck request failed: Connection refused
Try running xinetd -d (then amcheck) to see if (or why not) xinetd is running amandad.
