On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Paul Bijnens wrote:

> For the record, I also had that problem with errors like "Bad file
> number" and "dgram_recv: timeout" just after I upgraded to 2.4.3.  I had
> the problem for 3 consecutive nights, each night on different hosts.
> I then recompiled and reinstalled the Amanda software with
> "--with-debugging".  Strange enough, since then, the problem never
> happened again.  Currently I'm still running with debugging.

I haven't upgraded since I got the thing running (for fear it would stop
working), so I don't think that's really the issue. Also, this same
compile is being used on a completely seperate backup system that seems to
work more or less flawlessly (same version of tar and everything).

Justin Clayton
VLSI Research System Administrator
University of Washington
Electrical Engineering Dept
justincl AT u.washington DOT edu
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