On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, David Newman wrote:
> > > > On 1/8/05 5:15 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, David Newman wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> > >> On 1/8/05 3:15 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Is it possible to run amandad as a service without having inetd launch it? > >>> I'm having trouble getting a connection to a server running HP/UX 11.00. > >> > >> So the HP/UX 11.00 box is an amanda client? > > > > A client and server. If I run amcheck on the 11.00 machine to connect to > > itself it fails. If I run amcheck on the 11.00 machine to connect to a > > 10.20 machine it works fine. If I run amcheck on a 10.20 machine to connect > > to the 11.00 machine it fails. > > This may be a permissions thing. Whatever account name you're using on the > server needs permission on the client to run the amanda programs, write to > /tmp/amanda, and access the filesystems you want backed up. > > Also, if the username you're using is different from the one given in > inetd.conf, you'll need to specify it in .amandahosts, right after the > hostname. > > For simplicity's sake I'd recommend using the same username everywhere, and > specifying that username at compile time. You may still need to set > permissions in a few places, but having one username minimizes this. > > And -- just checking -- you have a properly configured .amandahosts in the > home directory of your amanda user, right? If not, "man amanda" and search > on .amandahosts. I configured all host the same using amanda as user name and group name at compile time. I checked and rechecked. When I run amcheck on 11.00 server to connect to itself there is a debug entry in /tmp/amanda for amcheck but nothing for amandad. If I do this on a working machine there is an entry in /tmp/amanda for amcheck and anandad. > > > > >> > >>> I have amanda running on several servers running HP/UX 10.20 and one > >>> running HP/UX 11.11 with no problems but amcheck always fails with "Host > >>> down?" on the 11.00 server. > >> > >> On the tape server, try running "amcheck -m <configname>" and see what > >> errors it returns. > >> > >> I had a similar problem between two FreeBSD boxes. In my case, amcheck told > >> me that the tape user didn't have permissions set correctly on the amanda > >> client in various places, including /tmp, /usr/local/var/amanda, and of > >> course the filesystems I wanted to back up. The problem cleared once I > >> corrected this. > >> > >> Another thing to verify is that the client machine lists the tape server > >> (and user, if it's not the default called from inetd.conf) in its > >> .amandahosts file. I had a CNAME instead of the canonical FQDN, which may > >> also have been a problem. > >> > >> dn > > > > I've used nettl, HP's network tracing and logging app, to spy on the UDP > > traffic. On the 11.00 machine when I run amcheck I see 3 UDP packets from > > amcheck and that's all. > > what's in those three packets? > > dn vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvARPA/9000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Timestamp : Sat Jan 08 CST 2005 16:16:38.561022 Process ID : 7319 Subsystem : NS_LS_UDP User ID ( UID ) : 800 Trace Kind : PDU OUT TRACE Device ID : -1 Path ID : 0 Connection ID : 0 Location : 00123 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Transmitted 145 bytes via UDP Sat Jan 08 16:16:38.056102 CST 2005 pid=7319 0: 02 21 30 39 00 7d 00 7d 41 6d 61 6e 64 61 20 32 .!09.}.}Amanda 2 16: 2e 34 20 52 45 51 20 48 41 4e 44 4c 45 20 30 30 .4 REQ HANDLE 00 32: 30 2d 34 30 30 31 44 45 45 30 20 53 45 51 20 31 0-4001DEE0 SEQ 1 48: 31 30 35 32 32 32 35 39 38 0a 53 45 43 55 52 49 105222598.SECURI 64: 54 59 20 55 53 45 52 20 61 6d 61 6e 64 61 0a 53 TY USER amanda.S 80: 45 52 56 49 43 45 20 6e 6f 6f 70 0a 4f 50 54 49 ERVICE noop.OPTI 96: 4f 4e 53 20 66 65 61 74 75 72 65 73 3d 66 66 66 ONS features=fff 112: 66 66 65 66 66 39 66 66 65 30 66 3b 0a -- -- -- ffeff9ffe0f;.... vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvARPA/9000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Timestamp : Sat Jan 08 CST 2005 16:16:48.552955 Process ID : 7319 Subsystem : NS_LS_UDP User ID ( UID ) : 800 Trace Kind : PDU OUT TRACE Device ID : -1 Path ID : 0 Connection ID : 0 Location : 00123 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Transmitted 145 bytes via UDP Sat Jan 08 16:16:48.055295 CST 2005 pid=7319 0: 02 21 30 39 00 7d 00 7d 41 6d 61 6e 64 61 20 32 .!09.}.}Amanda 2 16: 2e 34 20 52 45 51 20 48 41 4e 44 4c 45 20 30 30 .4 REQ HANDLE 00 32: 30 2d 34 30 30 31 44 45 45 30 20 53 45 51 20 31 0-4001DEE0 SEQ 1 48: 31 30 35 32 32 32 35 39 38 0a 53 45 43 55 52 49 105222598.SECURI 64: 54 59 20 55 53 45 52 20 61 6d 61 6e 64 61 0a 53 TY USER amanda.S 80: 45 52 56 49 43 45 20 6e 6f 6f 70 0a 4f 50 54 49 ERVICE noop.OPTI 96: 4f 4e 53 20 66 65 61 74 75 72 65 73 3d 66 66 66 ONS features=fff 112: 66 66 65 66 66 39 66 66 65 30 66 3b 0a -- -- -- ffeff9ffe0f;.... vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvARPA/9000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Timestamp : Sat Jan 08 CST 2005 16:16:58.552938 Process ID : 7319 Subsystem : NS_LS_UDP User ID ( UID ) : 800 Trace Kind : PDU OUT TRACE Device ID : -1 Path ID : 0 Connection ID : 0 Location : 00123 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Transmitted 145 bytes via UDP Sat Jan 08 16:16:58.055293 CST 2005 pid=7319 0: 02 21 30 39 00 7d 00 7d 41 6d 61 6e 64 61 20 32 .!09.}.}Amanda 2 16: 2e 34 20 52 45 51 20 48 41 4e 44 4c 45 20 30 30 .4 REQ HANDLE 00 32: 30 2d 34 30 30 31 44 45 45 30 20 53 45 51 20 31 0-4001DEE0 SEQ 1 48: 31 30 35 32 32 32 35 39 38 0a 53 45 43 55 52 49 105222598.SECURI 64: 54 59 20 55 53 45 52 20 61 6d 61 6e 64 61 0a 53 TY USER amanda.S 80: 45 52 56 49 43 45 20 6e 6f 6f 70 0a 4f 50 54 49 ERVICE noop.OPTI 96: 4f 4e 53 20 66 65 61 74 75 72 65 73 3d 66 66 66 ONS features=fff 112: 66 66 65 66 66 39 66 66 65 30 66 3b 0a -- -- -- ffeff9ffe0f;.... > > > On one of the machines that are OK if I perform the > > same procedure I see packets from amcheck and reply packets from amandad. > > If I run netstat -a | grep amanda it shows the amanda service listening. > > It just never gets launched. I'm a bit stumped. > > > > Thanks > > Richard Ray > > > >> > >> > >> I'm trying to determine if the problem is with > >>> inetd or amanda. I feel certain it's with HP but I don't know where else > >>> to look. I'm running amanda 2.4.4p4. > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> Richard Ray > >>> > >> > >> > > > >
