On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, David Newman wrote:

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> On 1/8/05 3:15 PM, "rray AT tcmail.mstc.state.ms DOT us"
> <rray AT tcmail.mstc.state.ms DOT us> wrote:
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> > Is it possible to run amandad as a service without having inetd launch it?
> > I'm having trouble getting a connection to a server running HP/UX 11.00.
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> So  the HP/UX 11.00 box is an amanda client?

A client and server. If I run amcheck on the 11.00 machine to connect to
itself it fails. If I run amcheck on the 11.00 machine to connect to a
10.20 machine it works fine. If I run amcheck on a 10.20 machine to connect
to the 11.00 machine it fails.

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> > I have amanda running on several servers running HP/UX 10.20 and one
> > running HP/UX 11.11 with no problems but amcheck always fails with "Host
> > down?" on the 11.00 server.
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> On the tape server, try running "amcheck -m <configname>" and see what
> errors it returns.
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> I had a similar problem between two FreeBSD boxes. In my case, amcheck told
> me that the tape user didn't have permissions set correctly on the amanda
> client in various places, including /tmp, /usr/local/var/amanda, and of
> course the filesystems I wanted to back up. The problem cleared once I
> corrected this.
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> Another thing to verify is that the client machine lists the tape server
> (and user, if it's not the default called from inetd.conf) in its
> .amandahosts file. I had a CNAME instead of the canonical FQDN, which may
> also have been a problem.
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> dn

I've used nettl, HP's network tracing and logging app, to spy on the UDP
traffic. On the 11.00 machine when I run amcheck I see 3 UDP packets from
amcheck and that's all. On one of the machines that are OK if I perform the
same procedure I see packets from amcheck and reply packets from amandad.
If I run netstat -a | grep amanda it shows the amanda service listening.
It just never gets launched. I'm a bit stumped.

Thanks
Richard Ray

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> I'm trying to determine if the problem is with
> > inetd or amanda. I feel certain it's with HP but I don't know where else
> > to look. I'm running amanda 2.4.4p4.
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> > Thanks
> > Richard Ray
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