Since maxdumps is set to two, 2 backups have been made without
problem.  Furthermore, I have removed the suspicious 127.0.0.2 in
my /etc/hosts and I am happy to say that it does not make any
difference (nothing broken before, nothing broken after:-).

Thanks for the support!

Charles


On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:30:27 -0400
"Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Charles Stroom
> <charles AT stremen.xs4all DOT nl> wrote:
> >  Dustin, thanks for the analysis and is seems to make sense because
> >  indeed in the /etc/services only 703 and 708 are unassigned in
> > between 700-710.  However, my amanda is installed from rpm from the
> > download area of amanda (opensuse 10), and I really hesitate to do
> > a compile from source.  In amanda.conf maxdumps was set to 3; I
> > have set it now to 2, would that not solve the problem because 2
> > ports are available?
> 
> Should work.  You could also probably safely delete some services
> you're not using.
> 
> >  I have little knowledge about the meaning of all this and above the
> >  line with CSt, it is generated (I think).  Is it not simply that
> >  localhost (== fiume, == fiume.localnet) can be addressed as
> > 127.0.0.1 or 127.0.0.2?
> 
> I think that's pretty definitely broken, although I don't think it
> caused this particular problem.  Do you have an interface configured
> at 127.0.0.2?  I doubt it.  If not, comment out the 127.0.0.2 line and
> you will probably find many broken things no longer broken :)
> 
> Dustin
> 


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