On Friday 18 July 2014 11:34:16 Olivier Nicole did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene, > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > Greeting Jean-Louis; > > > > 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 > > > > There has been enough configuration done that amrecover on this > > machine works. > > > > There is a /var/backups/.amandahosts file, its a link to > > /etc/amandahosts BUT, in /etc/.amandahosts. I'll mv it to > > /etc/amandahosts. Ran amcheck, no change and that file was not > > accessed. > > > > What do I check next? > > netstat -na |grep 10080 > > You should see an UDP open on that port, else it means xinetd is not > running/not listening for amanda. > > Olivier
gene@lathe:/etc/xinetd.d$ netstat -na |grep 10080 udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10080 0.0.0.0:* udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10080 0.0.0.0:* IIRC thats good. Next? Thanks Olivier. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS