All,
I have a weird(!) problem:
The message during amcheck was:
NAT: amandad busy
I checked the archives and found a reasonable number of answers:
* some people said to make sure that not two cron jobs at the same time
trying to access the tape.
(now I have not set this up yet, I still start it by hand ...)
* I checked with 'ps' whether there was a damon already running
(no there wasnt)
* The disklist might contain ONE host refered to by different names,
(No, the host is known ONLY by one name and this setup has been
working fine!).
So I looked thrugh the full listing of "ps -edf | sort -n" and
saw that user amanda was running the program:
/usr/local/libexe/selfcheck
Now I tried (as root) to throw everything I could at that process to kill it,
I even RESTARTED xinetd with NO amanda options, killed every shell, killed
X (not that this matters as PPID of selfcheck is "1", so init). All I had
running was ONE shell and my normal deamons (httpd,sendmail,squid etc).
Tried it as amanda. Nothing. Zilch.
What does it do?
Sadly, I used my last option; my uptime is rather small now and it was
pretty big :-(((.
Amanda works fine now again, but I dont like the reboot option! [1]
I just did a combo of amlabel, amcheck and an amdump and its fine
and whats left over is the shell I su'ed into:
[218] [piquet:root] / #ROOT# >ps -edf | sort -nr | /bin/grep -i aman | grep -v
/bin/grep
root 1496 1461 0 12:30 pts/7 00:00:00 su amanda
amanda 1499 1496 0 12:30 pts/7 00:00:00 -csh
[219] [piquet:root] / #ROOT# >
jobst
[1] A little bit of trivia:
A downloaded a fix for "rdisk" for WinNT. This fix was an executable which
did not have any libararies but got rid if a scary security flaw.
I installed this on a server but double clicking on the hotfix.
It rebooted the server, the main domain/file server without warning!
This was a Microsoft HOTFIX!
No wonder I dont like them.
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