Frank Smith <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com> wrote in message
<BBB9A9EC938EDE7DACB78637 AT hoovers-59.hoovers DOT com>

> --On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 17:22:28 +0100 Tony van der Hoff
<tony AT mk-net.nildram.co DOT uk> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have successfully installed and configured Amanda, and amcheck runs
> > successfully, as does amdump.
> > 
> > However, amrecover (running as root) fails, with the message "cannot
> > connect to tony-lx.magpieway.net: connection refused"
> > 
> > .amandahosts contains tony-lx.magpieway.net, which is the localhost, as
> > well as the tape server, which user amanda can happily access to do the
> > backups.
> > 
> > Evidently this is a permissions problem with root, but can anyone point
> > me in the right direction to fix it? Runnig Mandrake 9.1.
> 
> Do you have amindexd and amidxtaped configured in (x)inetd on the tape
> server? They aren't needed for backups, but are for restores.
>    'connection refused' usually indicates a service isn't running, or
> possibly firewall problems, .amandahosts problems generally give you an
> 'access as foo not allowed..' message.
> 

Thanks, Frank, for the suggestion. I didn't have them configured, so I have
done so. Have you any reference to these services in the documentation? I
have assumed they are datagram services.

Unfortunately, it has not had the desired effect :-(

Cheers,

-- 
Tony van der Hoff       | mailto:tony AT mk-net.nildram.co DOT uk
Buckinghamshire England