Thanks for the help. Turns out it was xinetd. There was an only_from in both /etc/xinetd.conf and in /etc/xinetd.d/amanda. By commenting out all of those amcheck returned with no errors.

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 10:16am, jlm17 wrote


tcpdump gives me this:
tcpdump -vv -i lo
tcpdump: listening on lo, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 68 bytes
10:08:27.706802 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 145) royal.inse.lucent.com.798 > royal.inse.lucent.com.amanda: UDP, length: 117
10:08:37.704970 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 145) royal.inse.lucent.com.798 > royal.inse.lucent.com.amanda: UDP, length: 117
10:08:47.706323 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 145) royal.inse.lucent.com.798 > royal.inse.lucent.com.amanda: UDP, length: 117


Those are the packets from amcheck. As you can see, there's no reply. amandad isn't getting started.


Additionally I figured out that xinetd logs some stuff in /var/log/auth.log:

Feb 26 10:08:27 royal xinetd[5766]: START: amanda pid=5941 from=152.148.113.221
Feb 26 10:08:27 royal xinetd[5941]: FAIL: amanda address from=152.148.113.221


Still not very useful though. I have changed the amandad config in xinetd:


Actually, that is pretty useful. From 'man xinetd.log':

A FAIL entry has the format:

FAIL: service-id reason [from=%d.%d.%d.%d]

       Possible reasons are:
.
.
              address        the address check failed

I'd guess that reverse lookups aren't working? Are you sure you restarted xinetd after removing the 'only_from' directive? Because that address check is your problem.




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