On Thursday 19 December 2002 10:24, Steve Loughran wrote: >Hi all > >I have been to google and egroups to try to find a fix for this > but no luck so far... > >All my internal hosts (i.e. IRIX/Redhat/Solaris hosts connected > via LAN) worked fine, first time, every time, but my first client > host through a firewall fails during the dumping process. > >External host is RH 7.3, RPM version on amanda have been removed, > and v2.4.3 has been installed from source. I have done exactly > the same on this host as the 20-25 other RH boxes I have on the > LAN. > >amcheck reports the that its test worked fine, the firewall shows > no dropped or denied packets during the amdump run, the NAT and > rules are correct, all the source and destination IPs and ports > are as they should be, but I cannot work out why this is > happening > >amstatus shows the estimate phase has completed, and is now > waiting for dumped data from the host: > >host-1:/ 0 5135470k dumping 32k ( > 0.00%) (14:41:28) > >The 32K block is the amanda header, and does not contain any data > from the client. > >I have plenty of drive space on the tape server for the log files, >permissions are correct on all directories, the index file for > this host/drive has been created but just sits there at 0 bytes > long. > >-rw------- 1 amanda disk 0 Dec 19 14:41 >index/host-1/_/20021219_0.gz.tmp > >The client shows this in the syslog: > >sendbackup[24693]: index tee cannot write [Connection timed out] >sendbackup[24691]: error [/bin/gtar got signal 13] > >and then it just sits there. I am waiting for dtimeout so it moves > onto the next drive on that host to see if it does the same > thing, but I have a feeling it will. > >What have a missed? This is driving me nuts.... > >Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks > in advance.
This is off hand, but it sounds like you need more etimeout. Or the firewall itself is timeing out, I think I heard someone mention that possibility a while back up the log. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.20% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
