On 2006-04-07 16:23, Bruce Thompson wrote:

An update...

First, thanks for the wild guess, Paul (nowait vs wait in xinetd.d). Setting nowait resulted in port unreachables...

I should be "wait" an nothing else.  (Or did I mistype my mail?)

I've started using ethereal to see what the traffic looks like and it appears that amandad simply isn't responding.

I'm seeing the UDP packet from the server coming in, but nothing goes out from amandad (which definitely is being launched by xinetd).

Is there a way to get amandad to report more detailed debug information?

It does by default.
In the AMANDA_DBG directory, usualy /tmp/amanda.

Also see:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcheck_issues

and especially:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Argh%21_It_still_won%27t_work%21_I_have_a_%22host_down%22_error_and_can%27t_figure_out_why%21




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