On Sun February 23 2003 13:31, Carsten Rezny wrote:
>> Does your distribution use inetd, or xinetd?
>>
>> HTH
>
>It used xinetd. Now I installed inetd, and amcheck works fine! So
> it was a problem with xinetd...
>
>Thanks again for all replies.
>
>Cheers, Carsten

And the stuff in xinetd.d defaults to disabled.  Here is my 
/etc/xinetd.d/amanda file for comparison.  And I would put xinetd 
back in as its quite a bit more secure.
-------------------------
# default = off
#
# description: Part of the Amanda server package
# This is the list of daemons & such it needs
service amanda
{
        disable         = no
        socket_type     = dgram
        protocol        = udp
        wait            = yes
        user            = amanda
        group           = disk
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
}
service amandaidx
{
        disable         = no
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = amanda
        group           = disk
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
}
service amidxtape
{
        disable         = no
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = amanda
        group           = disk
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
}
------- EOF, /etc/xinetd.d/amanda -----------

HTH

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