Thanks to Jeff who helped me see that disable=yes
won't make it work!
Thanks, Jeff!!!
John
--- Jeff Lightner <jlightner AT water DOT com> wrote:

> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Start up scripts for RHEL3
> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:09:55 -0400
> From: "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner AT water DOT com>
> To: "John Kennedy" <ennoil AT yahoo DOT com>
> 
> Okay.  Didn't see this issue myself - have at least
> 6 RH EL AS 3 hosts
> being backed up as clients.
> 
> Had a look at bpcd man page.  It indicates bpcd is
> normally started by
> inetd.  As mentioned in my prior post it's actually
> xinetd for RH.  You
> can see the xinetd setup in /etc/xinetd.d.   This is
> different from
> inetd because instead of having a single file the
> above is a directory
> that contains files for each service.
> 
> On my hosts I see /etc/xinetd.d/bpcd file which has
> the following
> contents:
> 
> # Service bpcd for NetBackup
> service bpcd
> {
>         socket_type             = stream
>         protocol                = tcp
>         wait                    = no
>         user                    = root
>         server                  =
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpcd
>         disable                 = no
> 
> }
> 
> 
> ^^^END OF CONTENTS^^^
> 
> You may wish to make sure you have a similar file
> and also insure that
> the xinetd process is running.   The way xinetd (and
> inetd) work is that
> they only start the daemon when there is a request
> for it.  This is why
> you don't need a startup script.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Kennedy [mailto:ennoil AT yahoo DOT com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:30 AM
> To: Jeff Lightner
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Start up scripts for RHEL3
> 
> Jeff,
> That was a typo.
> I installed the client. The problem I am getting is
> that when the servers tries to connect it gets an
> error 57 unless I actually run `bpcd -standalone`. I
> cannot where I am going wrong...
> John
> 
> --- Jeff Lightner <jlightner AT water DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > Did you install it as a client or a server (master
> > or media)?  If a
> > client you don't need start up scripts.  We're
> > running successfully on
> > many RH (including RHEL AS 3) servers as clients.
> > 
> > P.S.  Assuming it was a typo but just in case it
> > wasn't - inetd and
> > init.d are two completely separate things.  Also
> > RHEL AS 3 uses xinetd
> > rather than inetd.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]
> On
> > Behalf Of John
> > Kennedy
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:25 AM
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Start up scripts for RHEL3
> > 
> > I have just installed NetBackUp 5.1 on a few
> RedHat
> > 3
> > boxes. I have looked for a "goodies" directory
> with
> > the start up scripts in it but I have had no luck.
> > Does anybody have a copy of their startup scripts
> (I
> > am using inetd so I need the script from
> > /etc/init.d)
> > that they could send me.
> > Thanks,
> > John
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