On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:48:23AM -0600, richc AT chem.utah DOT edu 
enlightened us:
> Well.
> I have checked the docs and faq.
> 
> 
> I'm running the command as root as specified by the faq
> http://amanda.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/fom?_recurse=1&file=5
> 
> 
> >You see, I had 127.0.0.1 configured for user amanda for amdump. Amrecover HAS
> to be run as root.
> 
> 
> Also running the command specifying index server and tape server fails in the
> same way as if it were localhost.
> 
> #amrecover CCC -s fastkernel.chem.utah.edu -t fastkernel.chem.utah.edu
> AMRECOVER Version 2.4.4p1. Contacting server on fastkernel.chem.utah.edu ...
> amrecover: cannot connect to fastkernel.chem.utah.edu: Connection refused
> [root@fastkernel xinetd.d]# cat /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts
> ##127.0.0.1  root
> fastkernel.chem.utah.edu root
> 
> Thanks for your help
> Rich

It looks like amindexd isn't listening. What is your xinetd configuration
for amanda?

Matt

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