On Thursday 06 November 2003 05:16, InterNetX - Christoph Brunner
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>amcheck fails, whether 'backup03m' is in my hosts file or not.
>But, anyway, 'backup03m' is in the DNS and can be resolved
> correctly. 'backup03m' is the only name of the host, it has no
> aliases.
Mmm, dunno if its critical or not, but doesn't it also have a FQDN?
Like here, this machine is coyote.coyote.den, alias "coyote", and
obviously with a 192.168.x.x address. I have another named
gene.coyote.den, alias gene, etc. :-)
>Nice greetings,
>Christoph
>
>Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2003 11:05 schrieben Sie:
>> On Thursday 06 November 2003 04:35, Christoph Brunner wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >my amanda file in /etc/xinet.d/ looks exactly like this, the
>> > options are set correctly, too. I am not running inetd, only
>> > xinetd. Only the localhost (backup03m) is not passed correctly
>> > in amcheck, other hosts are ok.
>> >I tried the disklist file with 'localhost' instead of
>> > 'backup03m': The amcheck passes, but i get errors in starting
>> > amrecover, that backup03m isn't in disklist.
>> >To me it seemed easier to change 'localhost' to 'backup03m' in
>> > the disklist file than change anything else in the
>> > configuration. But why can't amcheck connect to the host it is
>> > running on?
>>
>> Do you have backup03m defined in your hosts file? And is this the
>> cannonical name of the machine? I'm using the short alias here
>> for both machines, and both are defined in teh /etc/hosts file.
>>
>> Using localhost, as you found, will bite you.
>>
>> >Nice greetings,
>> >Christoph
>> >
>> >Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2003 10:21 schrieben Sie:
>> >> On Thursday 06 November 2003 03:57, Christoph Brunner wrote:
>> >> >Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> >when i run amcheck, i get an error, that the host, i am
>> >> > currently working on, is not available:
>> >> >
>> >> >====================================================
>> >> >amanda@backup03m amanda $ amcheck -c DailySet1
>> >> >
>> >> >Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>> >> >--------------------------------
>> >> >WARNING: backup03m: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
>> >> >Client check: 2 hosts checked in 30.201 seconds, 1 problem
>> >> > found
>> >> >
>> >> >(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p1)
>> >> >====================================================
>> >> >
>> >> >A nslookup|dig|host can resolve the hostname, so that can't be
>> >> > the problem. If i write the FQDN of the host name in the
>> >> > disklist, the error is the same.
>> >> >
>> >> >Does anyone know, where the problem is?
>> >>
>> >> Are you running on a system that uses xinetd?
>> >>
>> >> If so, my guess is that you need a file, located in
>> >> /etc/xinetd.d, called amanda, probably owned by amanda:disk,
>> >> that resembles this one:
>> >> ------------------------------------
>> >> # default = off
>> >> #
>> >> # description: Part of the Amanda server package
>> >> # This is the list of daemons & such it needs
>> >> service amanda
>> >> {
>> >> disable = no
>> >> socket_type = dgram
>> >> protocol = udp
>> >> wait = yes
>> >> user = amanda
>> >> group = disk
>> >> groups = yes
>> >> server = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
>> >> }
>> >> service amandaidx
>> >> {
>> >> disable = no
>> >> socket_type = stream
>> >> protocol = tcp
>> >> wait = no
>> >> user = amanda
>> >> group = disk
>> >> groups = yes
>> >> server = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
>> >> }
>> >> service amidxtape
>> >> {
>> >> disable = no
>> >> socket_type = stream
>> >> protocol = tcp
>> >> wait = no
>> >> user = amanda
>> >> group = disk
>> >> groups = yes
>> >> server = /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
>> >> }
>> >> ---------------------------------------
>> >>
>> >> Modify the paths to suit your system of course, and the 'user'
>> >> and 'group' to match yours.
>> >>
>> >> Of course if you're still running things from an inetd list,
>> >> the docs contain the info to set that up. Either must be
>> >> restarted to take effect of course.
>> >>
>> >> >Nice greetings,
>> >> >Christoph Brunner
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