Re: amcheck/amdump fails (sometimes) to amanda client

On Thursday 20 May 2004 14:10, Steven Schoch wrote:
>The machines in question are both on a 10Mb hub.  The tape server is
> a new RedHat Enterprise Linux running amanda-2.4.4p1-0.3E direct
> from the RedHat distribution.  The client (named "marge") is
> running FreeBSD 4.7, running amanda 2.4.4p2 compiled from source
> that I downloaded yesterday in an attempt to solve the problem.  It
> is compiled with:
>
>./configure --without-server --with-group=amanda --with-user=amanda
>--with-amandahosts

This is the wrong group, the group may be bin, backup or disk, but it 
should have essentially root rights to the system. A gid <=10 is 
desireable.
>
>When I run amcheck (as amanda) manually on the RedHat machine, it
> reports no problems with the FreeBSD machine.  The FreeBSD machine
> (marge) creates debug files in /tmp/amanda and everything seems to
> be working fine.
>
>However, when amcheck is run from cron, as amanda, with the
> following line:
>
>0 16 * * 1-5    /usr/sbin/amcheck -m KBack
>
>... it reports, every day:
>
>WARNING: marge: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
>
>Also, the amdump command, run from crontab as this:
>
>45 0 * * 2-6    /usr/sbin/amdump KBack
>
>also fails with
>
>  marge      /var RESULTS MISSING
>
>In these cron cases, no files are created in /tmp/amanda on marge.
>
>
>So why does it work in a terminal but fail when run from cron?
>
>By the way, the RedHat tape server is new, but amanda on marge had
> been working fine with an older RedHat system earlier.
>
>--
>Steven Schoch
>
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