On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Brian Cuttler wrote:
>We have a tendance to JASS our systems to secure them, amanda
>ends up in an uninitialized state, with an enabled service and
>no errors in its config, because JASS disables INETD. You have
>to walk a whole new chain to find the errors these days.
>
>On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:40:27AM -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 11:58 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:00 AM, McGraw, Robert P <rmcgraw AT purdue DOT 
>> > edu> 
wrote:
>> > > [424][root@zorn]:index/zorn/_export_users-z# svcs -a | grep amanda
>> > > online         Feb_11   svc:/network/amandaidx/tcp:default
>> > > maintenance    May_19   svc:/network/amanda/udp:default
>> > >
>> > > cleared the maintenance mode and things are working.
>> >
>> > This seems to be a misfeature of the Solaris services -- it helpfully,
>> > permanently shuts down a service due to a temporary failure, which
>> > seems to be the opposite of resilience.  What's the deal?
>> >
>> > Dustin
>>
>> At least you were able to get it out of maintenance mode.  I was working
>> with someone and, no matter how much we stared at the correct looking
>> configuration, we could not clear it out of maintenance mode.
>>
>> Paul
>
>---
>   Brian R Cuttler                 brian.cuttler AT wadsworth DOT org

Brian, for those of us who have not heard of JASS, and for the lists 
enlightenment, could you discuss what it is and does without having to write a 
new War & Peace?

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