That was my ebuild, heavily modified by the gentoo developer that
commited it. ;]

Obviously you shouldn't have servers auto-update. :P

How many disk entries are on the server? Could it be that amcheck is
checking each one and tripping a threshold? 

Russell

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:29:03PM -0400, Chris Dahn wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I used to have 2.4.2p2 installed. I built an ebuild for Gentoo for it. 
> Apparently they finally accepted someone's ebuild for Amanda into the CVS 
> tree, and so my system was automatically updated to 2.4.4 last night. 
> However, this messed everything up. I've managed to fix (I think) all of the 
> user/group permission problems, but I'm having problems on one of my servers.
> 
>   Specifically, I start up xinetd, and when I do an amcheck, the remote 
> xinetd 
> spits out:
> 
> "Deactivating service amanda due to excessive incoming connections.  
> Restarting in 30 seconds."
> 
>   It will faithfully continue to do this forever. My other host (the one the 
> client sits on) doesn't have this problem. Any ideas?
> 
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