On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:16:11PM +0100, Jens Theisen wrote:
> I want to have one of the disks in the disklist be on the server that 
> does the backup. However, I can't get amandad (or anything else) running 
> with xinet.d on the amanda service. My guess would be that it's really a 
> conflict between the client and the server running on the same machine, 
> both taking the same port out of /etc/services.
> 
> Is there a way around this?

If it is a "standard" install - whatever that means :)
then your described arrangement is so common I'd call it the norm.
Server backs itself up - by amanda definition, the same host is
also a client.

I'd look elsewhere than client/server conflict - unless you've
made changes to the normal setup.

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