It does not happen every night, only five or six nights in the past month. I
think this rules out file permissions, and wrong paths. I don't think it's
full filesystem either cuz my "df" shows plenty of space. 

Michael Martinez
System Administrator (Contractor)
Information Systems and Technology Management
CSREES - United States Department of Agriculture
(202) 720-6223


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:jon AT jgcomp DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:19 PM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: Request for explanation of Index tee error
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 01:54:56PM -0400, Martinez, Michael - 
> CSREES/ISTM wrote:
> > What does the following syslog errors mean? Should I be 
> concerned about
> > it/do something to fix it?
> > 
> > Aug 13 00:56:10 ivideo sendbackup[3608]: index tee cannot 
> write [Connection
> > reset by peer]
> > Aug 14 01:00:43 vision sendbackup[1630]: index tee cannot 
> write [Connection
> > reset by peer]
> > Aug 15 00:55:16 vision sendbackup[3042]: index tee cannot 
> write [Connection
> > reset by peer]
> 
> Don't know why it is happening, but here is what I think is happening.
> 
> The data from your dumper program, dump/ufsdump/tar/???, 
> passes through
> a program that duplicates the entire data set and sends each through a
> separate data stream (pipes/sockets/...).  Similar to the 
> unix "tee" program.
> 
> One stream goes to the holding disk/tape drive.
> 
> The duplicate stream goes to the undumper program to generate a table
> of contents.  This TOC is massaged and becomes the index for the dump.
> 
> For some reason this second stream is unable to write its output (or
> temporary files).  This could be a permission problem, a wrong path
> with missing directories, a full file system or ???
> 
> HTH
> -- 
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