On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:48:14AM -0600, richc AT chem.utah DOT edu 
enlightened us:
> I've tried different ownership for amindexd.
> 
> Here's the xinetd configuration for amindexd.
> 
> Thanks
> Rich
> 
> 
> [root@fastkernel xinetd.d]# cat amandaidx
> # default: off
> #
> # description: Part of the Amanda server package
> 
> service amandaidx
> {
>         socket_type             = stream
>         protocol                = tcp
>         wait                    = no
>         user                    = amanda
>         group                   = disk
>         server                  = /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd
>         disable                 = yes
> }
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Doesn't work so good when it's disabled ;-)

Change to no, restart xinetd, and hope you didn't mess up the permissions on
amindexd. It should be 0755 by amanda:disk.

Matt

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