On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 at 9:40am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > amanda as 33, operator alone, etc... finally gave up and uninstalled > amanda from clients. > started over
Well done. The amanda rpms are a constant source of trouble. > running amcheck from the tserv box gets. > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check > -------------------------------- > WARNING: p2h.domain.com: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? > > looking at /tmp/amanda/amandad.tstamp.dump we see I assume this is from one of the clients? > amandad: running service "/usr/local/libexec/selfcheck" > amandad: dgram_recv: recvfrom() failed: Conneciton refused > amandad: error receiving message: Conneciton refused > error receiving message: Connection refused > amandad: pid 8206 finish time Thu Jan 31 09:54:30 2002 > > Now it seems to me that the clue is in the dgram_recv: recvfrom() > failed.... but I have tried bunches of rights, ownership, etc... things... > I got to be missing something.... > > any ideas???? Have you gone through FAQ-O-Matic? The options are: 1) (x)inetd on the clients is not set up right (probably not since you've got debug files). 2) TCP_wrappers on the clients are refusing connections. 3) ipchains on the server is getting in the way. What does your ipchains setup on the tape server look like? > ... > which begs the question.... how does user amanda(33) as a member of disk(6) > backup files and directories with xx0 masks???? > ... That depends on which tool you use for backup. Since you've made amanda a member of a group which has access to the raw disk devices in /dev, dump(8) works. For tar, amanda uses the setuid root 'runtar' wrapper. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
