On Tuesday 19 September 2006 11:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 08:10, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I found the problem that lead to the "timeout waiting for ACK" error.
>>>
>>> If you have this problem, try the latest 2.5.1 snapshot from
>>> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda
>>>
>>> Jean-Louis
>>
>> Ok, I understand that I'll have to modify a few things to advance to
>> these newer versions.  I have the wiki page bookmarked but have not
>> done other than the bsd-auth stuff.  Can you note any differences
>> between the wiki and now for 2.5.1-20060919?
>
>There is no difference.
>
I just found one:
============
[root@coyote root]# su amanda -c "amcheck Daily"
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-----------------------------
Holding disk /dumps: 11881 MB disk space available, using 12166156 MB
slot 5: read label `Dailys-5', date `20060901001501'
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Tape Dailys-5 label ok
Server check took 0.075 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
ERROR: NAK coyote: user amanda from coyote.coyote.den is not allowed to 
execute the service noop: Please add "amdump" to the line 
in /home/amanda/.amandahosts
Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.226 seconds, 1 problem found

(brought to you by Amanda 2.5.1-20060919)
=========
I either miss-read the instructions on modifying the servers ~/.amandahosts 
file, or the wiki is wrong.  In either event I had to make that particular 
line read:
===========~/.amandahosts snip========
coyote.coyote.den       amanda amdump amindexd amidxtaped
coyote                  amanda amdump amindexd amidxtaped
coyote.coyote.den       root amdump amindexd amidxtaped
gene.coyote.den         root amdump amindexd amidxtaped
gene                    root amdump amindexd amidxtaped
==========
and then amcheck was happy.  Some of that is probably spurious, but since 
I'm behind the firewall from hell, its basicly a shrug.


>Jean-Louis

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