Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

Replying to my own post (sorry, but I'm getting desperate here), I took
the advice of the FAQ-O-Matic and installed lsof and ran this command:

su-2.05b# lsof -uamanda

There was no output.  Should there have been?  Does this mean that amandad
is not running?  This is what I have in my /etc/inetd.conf:

amanda   dgram  udp  wait  amanda /usr/local/libexec/amandad  amandad

inetd.conf has beek killed and restarted, the client even
rebooted...anything?

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 up AT 3 DOT am wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Toomas Aas wrote:
>
> > up AT 3 DOT am wrote:
> >
> > > The server is reporting that client down, so I checked and noticed that
> > > the FBSD port for the amanda-client did not install amindexd or
> > > amidxtaped, although it did install amandad.  Are all 3 needed for a
> > > client?
> >
> > No, for client only amandad is needed.
>
> Then I cannot figure out why I'm getting "selfcheck request timed out"
> from that client.  The path in inetd.conf is correct, as is the user
> (amanda) and /tmp/amanda is owned by amanda and has debug files there
> (just config info).  .amandaclients has localhost.fqdn as well as
> hostname.fqdn.  That client IS running alot of IP addresses on it, but
> I've done that before with no trouble.
>
> Here is amcheck -c output:
>
> su-2.05b$ amcheck -c weekly
>
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> ERROR: old.amanda.client: [host someIP.comcastbiz.net: hostname lookup
> failed]
> WARNING: new.amanda.client: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> Client check: 2 hosts checked in 30.153 seconds, 2 problems found
>
> I understand the first error from the old client...there is no forward DNS
> on that IP (BTW, is there a way around that?  Just have it look at IP
> address?).  I can't figure out the cause of the second one...I went
> through everything on the FAQ-O-Matic about it...
>
> James Smallacombe                   PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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James Smallacombe                     PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up AT 3 DOT am                                                      http://3.am
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