Re: Security Issue

2002-05-28 Thread John Cartwright
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 08:19:27PM +0200, Tom Beer wrote: > reffering to the mentioned Advisories I would like to know what > the latest stable version of Amanda is, that is not affected. > I thought that 2.4.2p2 is the latest, as mentioned a week or > so ago on this list. Below, only 2.3.0.4 is m

Re: Clarification of Bugtraq info

2002-05-27 Thread John Cartwright
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:03:48PM -0400, John Cartwright wrote: > I'm sure I'm not alone in my request for clarification regarding the > recent BugTraq announcements... are we to expect a stable release with > these fixes soon? Or, (having re-read the advisory), what I *s

Clarification of Bugtraq info

2002-05-27 Thread John Cartwright
Hi I'm sure I'm not alone in my request for clarification regarding the recent BugTraq announcements... are we to expect a stable release with these fixes soon? Thanks - John

Re: Chewed Backups

2001-07-18 Thread John Cartwright
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:49:49PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: > * Did you set the TAPE environment variable before doing the rewind > and fsf commands? If so, what to? For instance, if it's set to > a rewinding device name (e.g. /dev/rmt/0b), the fsf would advance > out several

Chewed Backups

2001-07-16 Thread John Cartwright
Hi After completing the first dump cycle, I thought it was time to test Amanda, to make sure that I could restore in case of emergency. It's a good thing that I did. amrecover comes out with 'UNKNOWN file' whenever I try to restore anything. I read the docs and tried to read the headers, and go

BSM/amanda interaction on Solaris

2000-12-07 Thread John Cartwright
Hi Further to my original 'Completely Stuck :-(' postings, (with major thanks to Nate Haugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>), I have found what I believe to be the problem. Trussing the inetd binary and attempting to connect to the amanda service reveals the following error: auditsys(36, 0xFFBEF4A0)

Re: Completely Stuck :-(

2000-12-04 Thread John Cartwright
> OK, here's the next idea. Instead of running a script, run truss > directly by changing the inetd.conf line to this: > > amanda dgram udp waitbackup /bin/truss amandad >-fo /tmp/amandad.truss /opt/amanda/libexec/amandad > Hi This didn't work. In fact, on further invest

Re: Completely Stuck :-(

2000-11-29 Thread John Cartwright
>> bash-2.03# lsof -i | grep am >> inetd 19686 root 11u IPv4 0xe1dfac2c0t0 UDP *:amanda (Idle) > > See, it's not (LISTEN), which means inetd has disabled the service > because of a previous failure. kill -HUP it and see if the state > changes. I hate to disagree with you, but in my

Re: Completely Stuck :-(

2000-11-28 Thread John Cartwright
Hi > This says, as you sort of suspected, that inetd is not able to run > amandad for some reason. It is, however listening on the port and so > forth, so that part's configured properly. Just to be sure: bash-2.03# lsof -i | grep am inetd 19686 root 11u IPv4 0xe1dfac2c0t0 UDP *:

Re: Completely Stuck :-(

2000-11-24 Thread John Cartwright
Hi Thanks to Paul and Martin for the advice, although it didn't solve the problem! I thought the indexing services were optional, anyway? - John

Completely Stuck :-(

2000-11-24 Thread John Cartwright
Hi I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this one, basically I'm convinced amandad never runs from inetd, and I"ve spent days on this so far :-( I'm trying to install Amanda on a Solaris 8 x86 box, where the client and server are one and the same. Installation options were --with- user=a