On Sunday 21 December 2003 13:02, Frank Smith wrote:
>--On Sunday, December 21, 2003 17:43:21 +0000 Dean Pullen 
<dean.pullen AT virtuefusion DOT com> wrote:
>> I did have the FQDN in the hosts file, then tried IP and just
>> machine name on its own. Still no difference.
>>
>> Surely if amandad isn't running (which I think I've concluded from
>> looking through the running processes and the fact that nothing
>> appears in /tmp/amanda after startup), then I need to sort that
>> out first?
>>
>> Dean.
>
>Check your system logs to see if there are any errors from (x)inetd.
>  Also, you might want to run something like tcpdump on the client
> and see if the server is trying to connect to it.  If you see the
> server trying to connect but you still see nothing on the client
> (nothing in /tmp/amanda), then you may either have a problem with
> (x)inetd, hosts.allow/hosts.deny, or some firewall rules.
>  You might also want to make sure the Amanda user has permissions
> to write in /tmp/amanda.  You may have created the directory as
> root and it might not have the correct permissions.
>
>Frank

Thanks Frank, I forgotten that little detail.  The years are finally 
getting to my memory.

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