Gene Heskett wrote:

On Monday 23 April 2007, James Wilson wrote:

Are you talking about the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file? in my case it is
amandabackup.

That is not the usual name for that file.  What distro are you running?

OTOH, the actual name of that file isn't terribly important, but the contents are, and should generally resemble this, although the server locations could change depending on your packaging system, and of course the FQDN too:

====================
# default = off
#
# description: Part of the Amanda server package
# This is the list of daemons & such it needs
service amanda
{
        only_from       = coyote.coyote.den
        disable         = no
        socket_type     = dgram
        protocol        = udp
        wait            = yes
        user            = amanda
        group           = disk
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
        server_args     = -auth=bsd amdump amindexd amidxtaped
}
service amandaidx
{
        disable = no
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = amanda
        group           = disk
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
}
service amidxtape
{
        disable = no
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = amanda
        group           = disk
        groups          = yes
        server          = /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
}
===================

which will result in those 3 'service's being registered with xinetd for ready availability in the event they are called upon. As far as xinetd is concerned there is zero difference in how it works if the file was broken up into 3 pieces at the service keyword, and named jimbo, bubba and teri-sue, or this all in one file was named after a BC comic strip character. Its what is in the file(s) that that count. :-)

Pavel Pragin wrote:

James Wilson wrote:

Hey All,

   I have amanda version 2.5.0p2 I have installed version 2.5.0p2-4
for the amanda client. I have added the amanda server and the amanda
user in the .amandahost file on the client I checked the
/etc/services and all the amanda ports are there. But when I try to
do an amcheck tape this is what I get. It's been awhile since I have
added a client, am I missing something?

WARNING: ifx-se-02.transolutions.net: selfcheck request failed:
timeout waiting for ACK
Client check: 1 host checked in 30.036 seconds, 1 problem found

Hello,
It sound like you are trying to use "bsd" authentication to connect to
a client that is using "bsdtcp". You either need to upgrade to the
2.5.1 server or change the client to run "bsd". These changes need to
be made in the xientd service for amanda.
Thank You