On Tuesday 21 January 2003 11:19, Kang, James wrote: >They don't want to run xinetd. >Is amandad capable of running "stand-alone" mode? >Please understand I am not trying to argue against your "default > xinetd mode" solution with the latest xinetd.
I personally think their worries are missplaced, but that and a $1 bill will get you a cuppa most anyplace. However, I did a killall amandad here, then before I tried to run it I found I had 2 copies, one of which was maybe a leftover from an rpm install, so I rm'd it and ran the other one with an & as the eol. It died shortly, so I'd assume there is more to it than that. And there does not seem to be a manpage for it. I just checked my /etc/xinetd.d/amanda script and it was running the recently installed version, but has not restarted it in about 10 minutes since I killed it. Humm, odd. Before a restart of xinetd would restart amandad, (I tried that twice) I had to re-install, so maybe that second copy in /usr/lib/amanda is needed after all. And I hope I didn't kill a 70 meg OO-1.0.2 download doing that, I only have a 56k dialup line. So at this point, I don't know if you could successfully put the amandad launch in rc.local or not. All I can say is try it, and watch it occasionally with ps to make sure its running. Maybe even write a script for cron to run that checks to see if its running, and restarts it if it isn't. Or a wrapper script that runs it, waits till it exits, sleeps 5 seconds and loops. The sleep 5 is to keep it from hogging the system in case something is really fubar. Does anybody else have a better idea? Thats my best shot at it. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
