I (re)-inserted a system into amanda's disklist and got a rather
odd-looking error message.

Backup host:

% sudo -u backup amcheck -c sksp1
Password:

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
ERROR: curls: [dir /tmp/amanda needs 64KB, only has -2147483648KB available.]
ERROR: curls: [dir /tmp/amanda needs 64KB, only has -2147483648KB available.]
ERROR: curls: [dir /var/lib needs 64KB, only has -2147483648KB available.]
Client check: 8 hosts checked in 10.913 seconds, 3 problems found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4)


But on the host "curls":

% LC_ALL=C df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             16340380   7156816   8353512  47% /
% LC_ALL=C df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              16G  6.9G  8.0G  47% /

There is ample space and it does create /tmp/amanda and happily write
the debug info there. I don't see what else could be wrong and at least
the error should not be what (am|self)check claims it to be.

Could there be an overflow in some check? I have never seen that message
before (maybe since all the other systems are sanely partitioned ;).

Both systems are debian on Linux on x86 with the packaged amanda. The
other systems are working fine, as amcheck above says.

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How ever, for the sake of security, make sure the names of all your
pets and children contain several non-alphanumeric characters.
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