On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Michael Reuland
<michael.reuland AT activant DOT com> wrote:
> WARNING: apd50.coop.com: selfcheck request failed: tcpm_recv_token: invalid
> size: "/usr/local/etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf", line 5: a quoted string is
> expected
> "/usr/local/etc/aman
> Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.161 seconds, 1 problem found

This is basically a protocol error -- the server connected to the
client, expecting a binary-formatted packet in response, but the
config parser output an error message over the socket instead.

> The client system apd50.coop.com (SCO 5.0.4) shows the following when I try
> to run amcheck on that system.

Running amcheck on a client doesn't make sense, and won't parse the
amanda-client.conf.

> The ~etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf file is as follows:
>
> # amanda.conf - sample Amanda client configuration file.
> #
> # This file normally goes in /etc/amanda/amanda-client.conf.
> #
> conf "DailySet1" # your config name
>
> #index_server "myserver.mydomain.net" # your amindexd server
> index_server "myserver" # your amindexd server
>
> #tape_server "myserver.mydomain.net" # your amidxtaped server
> tape_server "myserver" # your amidxtaped server
>
> #tapedev "/dev/null" # your tape device
> # auth - authentication scheme to use between server and client.
> # Valid values are "bsd", "bsdudp", "bsdtcp" and "ssh".
> # Default: [auth "bsdtcp"]
>
> auth "ssh"
>
> # your ssh keys file if you use ssh auth
>
> ssh_keys "/usr/amanda/.ssh/id_rsa_amrecover"

Unless I'm missing something, line 5 is the "conf" line.  Try
commenting that line out?

> The configure line that I used for the SCO build was:
>
> configure --program-prefix= --bindir=/usr/local/bin \
> --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda \
> --localstatedir=/var/lib --with-gnutar-listdir=/usr/local/bin/gtar  \
> --with-user=amandabk --with-group=backup --with-tmpdir=/var/log/amanda \
> --enable-shared --enable-static --enable-threads --without-ipv6
>
> I've check all the files and directories and confirmed that all they are all
> owned and writable by amandabk w/ the few exceptions of the files that have
> SUID root.

Please post suggestions to help others build on SCO on the wiki:
  http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation/OS_Specific_Notes
and also please consider becoming a Platform Expert:
  http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Platform_Experts

We don't have anyone else around to test on SCO, so your help is the
only way we can continue to compile on this system.

Dustin

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