>Hallo all
>when checking if amanda is listening on the correct ports.
>netstat -a | grep -i amanda
>
>any ideas how I can trouble shoot further?
>According to me evereything there must work


Can you do a chkconfig --list and see the amanda services listed under xinetd 
based services and are they turned on? Do you have amanda, amandaidx and 
amidxtape files in your xinetd.d directory, and do they all look something like 
this (respectively):

service amanda
{
    protocol            = udp
    socket_type         = dgram
    wait                = yes
    user                = amanda
    group               = disk
    groups              = yes
    server              = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
}
service amandaidx
{
    protocol            = tcp
    socket_type         = stream
    wait                = no 
    user                = amanda
    group               = disk
    groups              = yes
    server              = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
}
service amidxtape
{
    protocol            = tcp
    socket_type         = stream
    wait                = no
    user                = amanda
    group               = disk
    groups              = yes
    server              = /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
}

And the amanda services are listed in /etc/services? What version of RedHat are 
you using?