On Monday 09 February 2004 08:31, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 8:28am, todd zenker wrote
>
>> I've read the FAQ's on this and still nothing seems to work.  I
>> get Host down. What I need is a checklist to make sure I'm not
>> missing anything. Amandad does pooop out after I run the amcheck
>> command.
>>
>> I'm trying to test my backup machine before I start testing others
>> machines.
>>
>> * Running Redhat 9.  Amanda 2.4.4.p1.
>> * I run Amandad from command line.
>
>?????  amandad needs to be run from xinetd.
>
>> * Disklist
>>          mountain hda2 comp-user
>> * I have no disk pool at all. All data is to go directly to tape.
>> * Tape is labeled.
>> * /etc/hosts I do have an entry
>> * No ipchains running or portsentry.
>> * /etc/services   Not sure if any of these are correct
>>          amanda 10080/udp
>>          amanda 10080/tcp
>>          kamanda 10081/udp
>>          amandiax 10082/tcp
>
>It sounds like you don't have amandad setup in xinetd.  Put this in
>/etc/xinetd.d/amanda
>service amanda
>{
>        protocol                = udp
>        socket_type             = dgram
>        wait                    = yes
>        user                    = amanda
>        group                   = disk
>        server                  = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
>}
>
>Restart xinetd and then try amcheck.

If you are going to use individual files for each service managed by 
xinetd, then he will also need the 2nd and 3rd stanzas of the one I 
just posted, xinetd doesn't care if they are combined like I did 
mine, its whats inside each {} that counts.

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