Thanks for your reply, Jay.

On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 21:57, Jay Lessert wrote:
> [Posted and Cc'ed]
> 
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 08:09:16PM +0100, Carsten Rezny wrote:
> > I have installed Amanda 2.4.2p2 on a SuSE 8.0 box. The machine is server
> > and client.
> > 
> > When I run amcheck I get the following result 
> > ERROR: /dev/nst0: no tape online
> >        (expecting tape maphy-d05 or a new tape)
> 
> I assume you understand this and will fix it, right?
Right, that's not the problem.

> > --------------------------------
> > WARNING: localhost: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> > Client check: 1 host checked in 30.006 seconds, 1 problem found
> 
> You always hate to see "localhost" here, so many ways that can go
> wrong.
> 
> Change the DLE (disklist entry) from "localhost" to the true hostname,
> double check ~amanda/.amandahosts according to docs/INSTALL, and
> try again.

OK, I replaced localhost with the real hostname, checked
~amanda/.amandahosts and still get the same result. Here is what I think
is the problem:

[amandad debug file]
got packet:
--------
Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 000-20B90708 SEQ 1046003786
SECURITY USER amanda
SERVICE selfcheck
OPTIONS ;
GNUTAR /mirror 0 OPTIONS
|;bsd-auth;index;exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar;
GNUTAR /home 0 OPTIONS
|;bsd-auth;index;exclude-list=/usr/local/lib/amanda/exclude.gtar;
--------

sending ack:
----
Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 000-20B90708 SEQ 1046003786
----

amandad: dgram_send_addr: sendto(0.0.0.0.875) failed: Invalid argument 
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
amandad: sending REP packet:
----
Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 000-20B90708 SEQ 1046003786
ERROR [addr 0.0.0.0: hostname lookup failed]
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


It looks like amandad doesn't know the server's IP address. Both client
and server run on the same machine and the machine knows its hostname.
Any more ideas?

Thanks, Carsten