Amanda-Users

Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-05 08:28:00
Subject: Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
From: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
To: shoaib r <shabswork AT yahoo.co DOT uk>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:15:35 +0200
shoaib r wrote:
I've been trying to get Amanda to be able to query the one backup client host that I have with no luck. I've been thru all the tech pages with no progress yet. Am I missing something?

We miss the exact error messages.  :-)

My .amandahosts file has the FQDN and I've only got one line specified for the client as a test in the disklist file. I've checked inetd.conf and /etc/services according to advice and they seem fine:

Is the amandad client started and gives an error or isn't it started
at all?

What happens when you start the amandad client from a command line?
It should sit there for 30 seconds and than terminate.  Or do you get
any error message there.

Verify that the amandad program is indeed started by inetd.

Any output in /tmp/amanda/*.debug on the client?



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