On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 at 8:40am, Steve wrote

> Hi all.
> 
> I've installed amanda from the latest source after removing the SuSE 7.3 rpm 
> version.
> 
> When I run amcheck it passes server test and dies on client:
> WARNING: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

Did you go through the steps in FAQ-O-Matic to solve this?  Is there any 
firewall (external, or ipchains/iptables) in the way?  Did you make the 
appropriate changes to (x)inetd?  Did you then restart (x)inetd?  etc, 
etc.

> I've gone through the amanda chapter in the book recommended, the same with 
> INSTALL file and cannot see anything I've missed. So I ran amoverview and it 
> reported:

amoverview is not going to help you debug this.  You need to get your 
setup to pass amcheck.

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

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