On Sunday 04 August 2002 23:32, Paul G. Allen wrote:
>I'm not real familiar with xinetd (nor am I familiar with inetd as
> I usually avoid both for security reasons).
[...]
>Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>--------------------------------
>WARNING: keroon: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
>WARNING: ista: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
>Client check: 2 hosts checked in 29.999 seconds, 2 problems found
>
>(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2)
>
>
>Looking at /var/log/messages, I see many many errors from xinetd
> when it tries to start the Amanda services:
>
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista xinetd[11746]: {bad_signal} Received 10
> signals in 1 seconds. Exiting...
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista xinetd[11747]: {general_handler} (11747)
> Unexpected signal: 11 (Segmentation fault)
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista last message repeated 9 times
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista xinetd[11747]: {bad_signal} Received 10
> signals in 1 seconds. Exiting...
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista xinetd[11748]: {general_handler} (11748)
> Unexpected signal: 11 (Segmentation fault)
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista last message repeated 9 times
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista xinetd[11748]: {bad_signal} Received 10
> signals in 1 seconds. Exiting...
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista xinetd[11749]: {general_handler} (11749)
> Unexpected signal: 11 (Segmentation fault)
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista last message repeated 9 times
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista xinetd[11749]: {bad_signal} Received 10
> signals in 1 seconds. Exiting...
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista xinetd[11750]: {general_handler} (11750)
> Unexpected signal: 11 (Segmentation fault)
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista last message repeated 9 times
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista xinetd[11750]: {bad_signal} Received 10
> signals in 1 seconds. Exiting...
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista xinetd[11751]: {general_handler} (11751)
> Unexpected signal: 11 (Segmentation fault)
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista last message repeated 9 times
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista xinetd[11751]: {bad_signal} Received 10
> signals in 1 seconds. Exiting...
>Aug  4 20:04:11 ista xinetd[11558]: Deactivating service amanda
> due to excessive incoming connections.  Restarting in 30 seconds.
> Aug  4 20:04:41 ista xinetd[11558]: Activating service amanda
>
>
>
>Here's my xinetd config file for the amanda service:
>
># default: on
>service amanda
>{
>        socket_type     = dgram
>        protocol        = udp
>        wait            = yes
>        user            = root
>        group           = disk
>        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
>        only_from       = 192.168.1.4 192.168.1.5 192.168.1.10
>192.168.1.11
>        no_access       = 192.168.1.1
>        log_type        = SYSLOG
>        log_on_success  = PID HOST USERID DURATION EXIT
>        log_on_failure  = HOST USERID ATTEMPT RECORD
>        disable         = no
>}
>
>
>The two hosts that are failing are the Amanda tape server (ista)
> and 192.168.1.4.
>
>PGA

Actually, there are 3 pieces of amanda related files in xinetd.d, or 
they can be merged into one file.

You can add your special stuff from above to this one if you'd like, 
its the one I've been running for about a year:
----------------------------------------
# default = off
#
# description: Part of the Amanda server package
# This is the list of daemons & such it needs
service amanda
{
        disable = no
        socket_type     = dgram
        protocol        = udp
        wait            = yes
        user            = amanda
        group           = disk
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
}
service amandaidx
{
        disable = no
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = amanda
        group           = disk
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
}
service amidxtape
{
        disable = no
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = amanda
        group           = disk
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
}
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The above file must be owner:group=amanda:disk

I see you are trying to run amanda as user root from your amanda 
file, and that won't fly at all.  Amanda will do her own suid when 
she needs to, and she checks to see who she is and exits if she is 
root at launch time.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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