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

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