Not sure if this is relivent to your case but; 

1) I am new to Mac OSX so take pity if I say something stupid.
2) We run a Mac OSX server
3) Our Mac OSX server uses Apple's launchd to launch programs.
4) Added a LaunchDaemons .plist restarted launchd and I have been backup up
our Mac server from a Solaris 10 host for the last several months and it has
been working just fine.

I believe launchd is Apple's replacement for xinetd, cron and rc.local
files, something like Sun's new service (svc) management.

Robert



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT 
> amanda DOT org]
> On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 3:36 PM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Cc: Brian Cuttler; Chris Knight; Brian Kilpatrick
> Subject: Re: amanda client on MAC, launchd issue
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 09 January 2007 11:44, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> >We are running the server on Solaris and a client on MAC OS X
> >but are seening that the launchd process seems to invalidate
> >the service.
> >
> >So far I haven't found the actual line in /var/log/system.log
> >but I see these messages which show the intent, so I believe
> >I'm on track.
> >
> >Jan  6 18:32:09 trel launchd: org.amanda.amandad: 7 more failures
> > without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
> >
> >
> >trel:/var/log cssadmin$ uname -a
> >Darwin trel.wadsworth.org 8.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0: Fri Sep  8
> > 17:18:57 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.12.6.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh
> > powerpc
> >
> >On the client
> >amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.5p1"
> >
> >Should we use xinetd instead ?
> >
> amanda needs xinetd because the services (generally speaking) are launched
> on demand rather than launched and sleeping till demand.  It could at one
> time be done by inetd, but that code may have bit rot if it still exists,
> even in a version as old as 2.4.5p1.  I'm currently running Amanda
> version 2.5.1p2-20070105 here.
> 
> And this is a wee bit odd because on FC6, I had to install xinetd after
> the installation was done in order for amanda to continue to work with my
> existing configuration which I simply copied over from the old drive.
> 
> I have NDI why xinetd is not now part of the default install, so its
> possible we may be seeing the first shot in needing to figure out a new
> way to do it.  In fact my curiosity is piqued enough to go ask on the
> fedora list as the the future status of xinetd.
> 
> >                                             TIA,
> >
> >                                             Brian
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