Awesome, I found the docs in my ports dir
(/usr/ports/misc/amanda-server/work/amanda-2.4.3b4/docs) in FreeBSD
however it appears that the docs were not installed during the install
as they don't exist in the /usr/share/doc/ dir (I do have this dir, just
nothing about Amanda in there), no biggie at all as I can read them as
is.

Thanks a bunch, now I can read more goodies about Amanda :D

Jay


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Matt Hyclak
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 4:05 PM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: amcheck passed however amdump failed

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:52:09PM -0500, Jason Lavigne enlightened us:
> Could you point me to PORTS.USAGE? I have just found the docs at
> http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html and I haven't read them yet,
> only the man pages and I don't recall PORTS.USAGE.
>

* It's called PORT.USAGE, my bad.

I don't know where it would be on your system, but it is installed in
the
docs directory included with the amanda package. On my redhat system it
is
in /usr/share/doc/amanda-server-2.4.4p1. 

> Also there is a firewall between the server and client, however it is
> setup the same for 6 other servers in the DMZ and none of these
servers
> are having any trouble. I will double check the firewall. However
> wouldn't amcheck fail if this is a firewall issue?
> 

No, amcheck passes since it uses the ports that are usually allowed by
the
firewall. The problem is when the data stream starts, it is on a port
sent
by the server, so unless the firewall examines the packets, it doesn't
know
to allow those through. If the others work and one doesn't, I would
check
for a firewall installed on the failing machine itself, and also double
check that the client is compiled with the same --udp-portrange and
--tcp-portrange as the working servers.

Matt

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