WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

[Dean Pullen]

Hi.   Having recently setup Amanda I'm having the following problem.   Performing an amcheck gives:   WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?   Originally I thought this was a shorewall [firewall] problem as it reported that it was rejecting packets on port 10080. Having allowed 100800 both ways, no further packets are rejected. However I still have the same problem.   I'm using SuSE 8.2 with the Amanda RPM that came with SuSE 9.0 (amanda-2.4.4p1-62.i586.rpm).   Does anyone have any advice to offer?   Thanks in advance...   Dean Pullen