It is really that service amanda in '/etc/xinetd.d/amanda' was
disabled.
/etc/xinetd.d/amanda (should be)
# default: off
# description:  The client for the Amanda backup system.\
#               This must be on for systems being backed up\
#               by Amanda.
service amanda
{
        disable = no
        socket_type             = dgram
        protocol                = udp
        wait                    = yes
        user                    = amanda
        group                   = disk
        server                  = /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
}

AH>  Make sure that amandad in your xinetd/ inetd is enabled and up and
AH> running.
AH> It's not an authorization problem but a service problem.
AH> cheers
AH> Axel

AH> On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 06:20, Vlad wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Can you help with setting amanda backup for localhost ?
>> Here is my disklist file:
>> localhost   /var  OracleBackup
>> 
>> Amanda check is:
>> bash$ amcheck DailySet2
>> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
>> -----------------------------
>> Holding disk /tmp: 452432 KB disk space available, that's plenty
>> ERROR: log dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet2: not writable
>> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
>> Tape OracleBackup1 label ok
>> NOTE: info dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet2/curinfo: does not exist
>> NOTE: it will be created on the next run
>> NOTE: index dir /var/lib/amanda/DailySet2/index: does not exist
>> Server check took 1.459 seconds
>> 
>> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>> --------------------------------
>> WARNING: localhost: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
>> Client check: 1 host checked in 30.004 seconds, 1 problem found
>> 
>> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2)



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Best regards,
 Vlad                            mailto:vlad AT nkmz.donetsk DOT ua