Paul Bijnens wrote:

Leonid Shulov wrote:

Now I checked another PC and :
Server check took 120.707 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
WARNING: nicks: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
Client check: 1 host checked in 29.998 seconds, 1 problem found

I'm still curious about the results of the executing this command
on the failing clients (not on the server!):

 $ sudo -u backup mkdir -p /var/log/amanda

Do you get an error (which?), or does it succeed (no output)?

amandad: time 30.002: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 30.002: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 30.002: pid 24491 finish time Tue Jan 24 13:12:33 2006

Setting up libusb-0.1-4 (0.1.11-3) ...
Setting up patch (2.5.9-3) ...
Setting up libktnef1 (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up dvd+rw-tools (6.0-1) ...
Setting up enscript (1.6.4-8) ...
Setting up gnome-session (2.12.0-4) ...
Setting up libkleopatra1 (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up kde-style-lipstik (2.1-2) ...
Setting up libbonoboui2-common (2.10.1-2) ...
Setting up libeel2-data (2.12.2-3) ...
Setting up libicu34 (3.4-4) ...
Setting up libmysqlclient12 (4.0.24-10sarge1) ...
Setting up libsmbclient (3.0.21a-3) ...
Setting up libungif4g (4.1.4-2) ...
Setting up pppoeconf (1.9) ...
Setting up realpath (1.9.28) ...
Setting up samba-common (3.0.21a-3) ...
Setting up smbclient (3.0.21a-3) ...
Setting up smbfs (3.0.21a-3) ...
Setting up samba (3.0.21a-3) ...
Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd.

Setting up showimg (0.9.5-1) ...
Setting up ttf-bitstream-vera (1.10-4) ...
Regenerating fonts cache... done.

Setting up libmotif3 (2.2.3-1.3) ...
Setting up libbonoboui2-0 (2.10.1-2) ...
Setting up libeel2-2 (2.12.2-3) ...
Setting up libkdepim1a (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up libkcal2b (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up akregator (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up kaddressbook (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up knotes (3.5.0-5) ...

Leonid