On Sunday 21 December 2003 13:02, Frank Smith wrote: >--On Sunday, December 21, 2003 17:43:21 +0000 Dean Pullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I did have the FQDN in the hosts file, then tried IP and just >> machine name on its own. Still no difference. >> >> Surely if amandad isn't running (which I think I've concluded from >> looking through the running processes and the fact that nothing >> appears in /tmp/amanda after startup), then I need to sort that >> out first? >> >> Dean. > >Check your system logs to see if there are any errors from (x)inetd. > Also, you might want to run something like tcpdump on the client > and see if the server is trying to connect to it. If you see the > server trying to connect but you still see nothing on the client > (nothing in /tmp/amanda), then you may either have a problem with > (x)inetd, hosts.allow/hosts.deny, or some firewall rules. > You might also want to make sure the Amanda user has permissions > to write in /tmp/amanda. You may have created the directory as > root and it might not have the correct permissions. > >Frank
Thanks Frank, I forgotten that little detail. The years are finally getting to my memory. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
