Back on Mar 5th Steve Loughran posted the message below.  I am now
having the identical problem.  I was unable to find a solution posted in
the archives.  I too have tried everything to no avail.

Steve (or anyone else), did you ever solve this problem, and if so,
please advise...

Thanks,
Dick Kreutzer

> Hi all
> 
> I`ve used Cygwin before, and I have used Amanda for a while now, but trying
> to get Amanda on Cygwin to work happily is beginning to drive me nuts... I
> thought I`d get more helpful answers on here than on the Cygwin
> forums/lists.
> 
> I followed the HOWTO-CYGWIN.html doc to the letter, got inetd running from
> services on XP Pro, but running amcheck on the XP/Cygwin host on the tape
> server keeps spitting out
> 
> "WARNING: <hostname>: selfcheck request timed out. Host Down"
> 
> if I run inetd -d from Cygwin bash shell, i see amandad getting
> started,stopped,started,stopped, over and over again....
> 
> I have spent most of today banging my head against this... and when I wasnt
> banging my head, I was trawling the web (with no result that helps).... Has
> anyone got this setup running correctly?
> 
> Many thanks in advance for any help...
> --
> 
> Steve
> 
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