Well, my etimeout is 3600 seconds and they had been running for over 8
hours.  Looking at the log files on the client, all of the estimates
completed successfully.  But I tracked the problem down. Had to do with
a bad (enterprise?) Linux kernel on the client.  Upgrading the kernel
and rebooting seems to have fixed the problem.

--a

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 09:39, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> Are you running with a monster "etimeout" value in amanda.conf?