Well, yes, you're right. tcpd is supposed to work transparently, but in this case it was

more opaque.

 

Do you have any suggestions on this, beyond RTFM?

 

Thanks,

FL

 

On 11/21/06, Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com> wrote:

A better advice is to configure tcpd instead of removing it.

Jean-Louis

Florian Lengyel wrote:
> FYI:
>
> I was getting an amcheck ACK timeout error:
>
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> ------------------------------
> --
> WARNING: wilf: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK
> Client check: 1 host checked in 30.002 seconds, 1 problem found
>
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.1p1)
>
> I'm using the above version of AMANDA on a Debian system (unstable
> release).
>
> This was uninspiring, as the AMANDA client and server are on the
> same machine! I did have a quick fix, that isn't mentioned in the
> AMANDA wiki,
> so I will email the list with it.
>
>
>
> The Debian apt-get installer appends the following line to /etc/inetd.conf
>
> amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
>
> I removed the /usr/sbin/tcpd argument,
>
> amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
>
> restarted inetd and was rewarded with:
>
> backup@wilf:~$ amcheck Daily
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> Holding disk /home/amanda: 106289492 KB disk space available, using
> 105265492 KBslot 1: read label `Daily-01', date `X'
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> Tape Daily-01 label ok
> Server check took 0.820 seconds
>
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> Client check: 1 host checked in 0.026 seconds, 0 problems found
>
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.1p1 )
>
>
>
>