At 01:35 PM 9/22/2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 at 11:01am, Bao Ho wrote

> RedHat Linux 9.0, kernel 2.4.20-18.9
> Amanda 2.4.4p1-20030716
> Server only backs up itself.
>
> > No suprious email, ie cron output ?
> >
> >
> I reported in my subsequent email. I see two unusual messages in syslog:
> application bug: dumper (PID) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but callls wait().
> (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaround activated.

Those messages are due to the NPTL patches in the RH9 kernel.  Look
through the list archvies for a patch from someone at RH fixing this
problem.

Specifically:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/46310

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