Hi Rafe! On 21 Nov 01 at 11:10 you wrote:
> > > I've been trying to configure an amanda client on a Sun box. When I do an > > > "amcheck" the server checks out fine, but I get this warning from the > > > client: > > > WARNING: al-bundy.cs.ucla.edu: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? > The server is running Redhat linux 7.1. There's no firewall in between > them except for the ipchains firewall on the server. But I opened up port > 10080, so that shouldn't be a problem right? Wrong. In addition to UDP port 10080 (which is used for initiating the backup session), amanda uses other TCP ports for actual transfer of the backup image. By default these are random non-privileged ports on the client and privileged ports on the server. You need to compile amanda with the --with-portrange switch so that it will use specific ports instead of random, and open up that range of TCP ports in ipchains. I have done it and it works. There is an excellent write-up titled "How Amanda uses UDP and TCP ports", by John R. Jackson, in the amanda-hackers archive. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * I've got a life but it won't run on my operating system.
