I think you are missing the "amidxtaped" part of the amanda server xinetd 
config.
Here is an example of what you server xinetd config should look like. After you 
make
the changes make sure to restart xinetd and also tail /var/log/messages for any 
possible
errors. The run "amrecover TEST -t amanda-test -s amanda-test" from the client 
as root.

# default: on
#
# description: These services provide indexing capabilities for
#              the Amanda backup server.
service amandaidx
{
      disable         = no
      socket_type     = stream
      protocol        = tcp
      wait            = no
      user            = amanda
      group           = disk
      groups          = yes
      server          = /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd
}
service amidxtape
{
      disable         = no
      socket_type     = stream
      protocol        = tcp
      wait            = no
      user            = amanda
      group           = disk
      groups          = yes
      server          = /usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped

Sebastian Kösters wrote:

Hi!

A few days ago i setup a new amanda server on an new machine.

Everything seems to be fine. I did a test-backup and it works great (pretty
fast).

I also wanted to try to recover this test-backup. But when i do

amrecover -t amanda-test -s amanda-test -C TEST

i get this error:

amrecover: Unexpected end of file, check amindexd*debug on server
amanda-test

Thats in amindexd*debug:

mindexd: debug 1 pid 6081 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Thu Jul 20 10:36:30 2006
amindexd: version 2.4.5p1
amindexd: getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket
amindexd: time 0.000: getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket
amindexd: time 0.000: pid 6081 finish time Thu Jul 20 10:36:30 2006

my xinetd entry looks like this:

# 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                 = no
}

When i execute /usr/lib/amanda/amindexd by hand i get no error message or
something like this.

What am i doing wrong?

Hope someone can help.

Thanks!

Kind regards
Sebastian