On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 at 6:46pm, Dave Brooks wrote

> >So you started amandad, which started listening for requests, didn't hear
> >any within 30 seconds, and so quit.  That's normal.
>
> The daemon terminates itself if it doesnt receive any requests within 30
> seconds?  So you have to restart it?  Surely that can't be.

The daemon only starts up when a request comes in for it -- it's not
running all the time.

> 'amcheck std' produces no errors other than a timeout when trying to connect
> to the client daemon.

Well, that's a pretty important error... ;)  What *exactly* does amcheck
tell you?  Is /tmp/amanda/amandad*debug or /tmp/amanda/selfcheck*debug
getting updated when you amcheck?  Is there any sort of a firewall/packet
filter in place?  You never told us OS...

> The pertinent lines on the client's /etc/inetd.conf (which, for the time being,
> happens to be the server as well) are as follows:
>
> amanda          dgram   udp     wait    amanda  /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
> amandad

You mentioned xinetd, but now you're talking inetd...

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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