On Thursday 04 December 2003 22:46, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> It may also be in the Faq-O-Matic at amanda.org.  If not, maybe someone
> who uses xinet could add a Q&A for "how should xinetd.conf be setup?".

I recently had a bit of trouble getting amandad to start up with xinetd, 
here's what I found out...

Here's the xinetd.conf that I got with Gentoo...your mileage may vary 
depending on distro, however.

# Sample configuration file for xinetd

defaults
{
        only_from      = localhost
        instances      = 60
        log_type       = SYSLOG authpriv info
        log_on_success = HOST PID
        log_on_failure = HOST
        cps            = 25 30
}

includedir /etc/xinetd.d

...in /etc/xinetd.d I created a file called amanda with the following...

service amanda
{
        protocol        = udp
        socket_type     = dgram
        wait            = yes
        user            = amanda
        group           = amanda
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
        only_from       = fully.qualified.domain.com
}

service amandaidx
{
        protocol        = tcp
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = amanda
        group           = amanda
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
        only_from       = fully.qualified.domain.com
}

service amidxtape
{
        protocol        = tcp
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = amanda
        group           = amanda
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
        only_from       = fully.qualified.domain.com
}

...note that the only_from is different from the default xinetd.conf.  That 
was the problem that I ran into. 

I hope that helps.

-- 
Thanks,
Stefan.