--On Friday, May 06, 2005 12:03:13 -0400 Lei Zhong <lzhong AT applimation DOT 
com> wrote:

> I just installed Amanda server and client on a Fedora machine.  I ran
> amcheck and amdump locally.  They were both successful.  However, when I
> ran amrecover, I got the error "amrecover: cannot connect to <FQDN of my
> machine>: connection refused".  I checked /etc/host and hosts.allow.  I
> also put amandaidx and amidxtape under /etc/xinetd.d.  I tried solutions
> posted on FAQ of Amanda.  It still doesn't work.  Can somebody tell me
> what I should look into?  I appreciate your help.  Thank you, lei
> 

Have you tried running amrecover with the -s and -t options to make sure
it tries to connect to the right server?

Also, after modifying your xinetd config, did you restart xinetd (I don't think
a kill -HUP works on xinetd, I believe you need to kill -USR2 it or restart it).

Did you set the group option in your xinetd config?

Do you have any firewall rules in place that might block the connection?

Is there anything in the system logs from xinetd (or your firewall, if you're
running one) that might give a clue on why it's not starting it?

Frank

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