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On Tuesday, 19.07.2005 at 09:06 -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:

> Most of our servers are accessible only via ssh with a root key. Does
> amanda work in such a setup or does the amanda user have to have
> regular login access? One of my coworkers changed one of our servers
> to only accept logins via ssh and now amanda doesn't seem to be able
> to get there and we get the following message:
> 
> WARNING: /host/: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> 
> I suspect that amanda simply doesn't like not being able to log in. Is
> this accurate?

AMANDA clients should have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf (or somewhere
under /etc/xinetd.d depending on distro).  This means that the client is
listening on the amanda port (typically 10080) and will respond to
connections appropriately.  The trick is to ensure that /etc/amandahosts
contains the list of usernames and hosts which are allowed to connect.

This doesn't depend on ssh or login sessions at all.

Note that /etc/amandahosts is the name of the file under Debian - in
general the file is called .amandahosts and appears in the home
directory of the amanda user (usually 'backup').  Debian achieves this
using symlinks.

Dave.
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Dave Ewart
davee AT ceu.ox.ac DOT uk
Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit
Cancer Research UK / Oxford University
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