On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:14:09AM -0400, lee fellows wrote:
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> On Thursday 04 September 2003 10:50, Ripley, Scott wrote:
> > I have ten Solaris8 clients running Amanda just fine, however one of them
> > has been holding out on me for months and I can't figure it out.
> >
> > It compiles fine, it installs fine, and it even seems to run fine (If I do
> > /usr/local/libexec/amandad, it runs for a minute, then stops, like all the
> > others do).
> >
> > However, if I run amcheck <config> <clientname> I get these messages on the
> > client:
> > Sep  4 08:24:27 local@host inetd[137]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning]
> > /usr/local/libexec/amandad: Killed
> > Sep  4 08:24:27 local@host inetd[137]: [ID 667328 daemon.error] amanda/udp
> > server failing (looping), service terminated
> >
> > My /etc/services looks like this:
> > amanda          10080/udp                       # Amanda 2.2.6
> > amandaidx       10082/tcp                       # Amanda 2.2.6
> >
> > Inetd.conf looks like this:
> > amanda  dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/local/libexec/amandad
> > amandad
> >
> 
>   Does amandad run as root on all your Solaris boxes?  I configured my
>   Solaris clients to run as the user amanda and wonder if trying to use
>   the root user to run the client is the problem.

Good catch,
lots of amanda programs check for too much or too little privleges.

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