Two letters just came in with the same Subject but (somewhat) different
From: values. I'm hoping they are really from the same person.
>here are two error lines typical of the two types (local and
>smb) of shares:
>
>thehost //axon/Users lev 0 FAILED [badly formatted response from thehost]
>
>thehost /usr/local/data17 lev 0 FAILED [badly formatted response from theh
>ost]
What version of Amanda are you using?
Take a look at the /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug file on "thehost" (the
client). At the top it should say the SERVICE is "sendsize".
There are a couple of possibilities. One is that you've added some
"disks" and the request (or corresponding reply) is now longer than a
UDP packet (roughly 65 KBytes).
Look for "Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE ...". Following that is the reply
being sent back to the server. Copy from the next line to the "----"
line to another file and see how big it is.
The other thing you can do is look through the reply and see if anything
looks goofy. It should just be a bunch of entries like this:
/ 0 SIZE 606750
/ 3 SIZE 13030
/opt 0 SIZE 690390
/opt 1 SIZE 172
(disk, level, "SIZE" and estimated KBytes)
If the problem is the request/response has gotten too large, the current
242 CVS source tree contains a workaround. You could either upgrade
your server to that, or I can probably find the patch in the mailing
list archive and you could apply it (assuming you're running 2.4.2p2).
>cj
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
