The message indicates that the self-check portion of the amcheck command 
timed out while communicating with either itself or the client.  Make sure 
that xinetd configuration files are set up correctly to respond to the 
Amanda commands sent over the Amanda UDP port.

1.  Check your /etc/services file on each machine to ensure that you have
the amanda UDP 10080 service defined in the file.

2.  Check your /etc/inetd.conf file or /etc/xinetd.d file(s) have the 
appropriate entries for amanda (I use Amanda at work on a Tru64 UNIX system
and my home server is Fedora Core 3, your mileage may vary....)

3.  Check the contents of the /tmp/amanda debug files from the amcheck
operation to get more detailed explanations of why the operation is failing.

Best wishes,

Don

Donald L. (Don) Ritchey
Information Technology
Exelon Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Carlton [mailto:don.carlton AT citadel DOT edu]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 1:41 PM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: client version varies from server


On my amanda server (redhat 7.3) I'm running amanda-server-2.4.2p2-7 and on
the client I'm running amanda-client-2.4.4p1-0.3E (RedHat ES). I keep
getting
"selfcheck request timed out" when I try to run amcheck on the server? Is
this caused by the different versions??


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