On Monday 16 June 2003 16:09, Harry Mbang wrote:
>Hi all, thanks for your suggestions.  I am at the point where I
> think the problem has shifted from being one of tape drive
> specification to communication between the Tape host server and the
> client.  When I run amcheck this is the part of the message I get:
>
>"WARNING: linux.local: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> Client check: 1 host checked in 30.016 seconds, 1 problem found"
>
>The logs in /tmp/amanda give amcheck: debug 1 pid 1316 ruid 37 euid
> 0 start time Mon Jun 16 04:51:42 2003
>amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.626
>amcheck: pid 1316 finish time Mon Jun 16 04:52:12 2003
>
>Is the Amanda user supposed to have a uid below or above 500?  Mine
> has one below and was created when I installed Amanda, i.e. the
> Amanda user was not directly created by me.  Also in .amandahosts I
> have using root along with the hostname.  Has anybody got an idea
> of what could be wrong?  Thanks.

Please use FQDN's everyplace.  I'm not claiming that will fix it, but 
it'll be a step up on fixing the problem.

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