On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 at 12:34pm, David.Lee AT arvatousa DOT com wrote

> I got the following message when ran 'amcheck -c DailySet1':
> WARNING: mws: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> Client check: 1 host checked in 30.000 seconds, 1 problem found
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.3)

http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/16.html

> The disk(client) is part of the tape server. 

Doesn't matter -- the network stuff is still the same.


> I only saw one file 'amcheck.20030204091919.debug' in /tmp/amanda.
> It didn't give me much information.
>  I couldn't find 'selfcheck*debug' files.

If there's no amandad*debug, then you're not even getting into the system.  
Check your firewall config and check /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University