On Tuesday 19 September 2006 11:03, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 19 September 2006 08:10, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I found the problem that lead to the "timeout waiting for ACK" error. >>> >>> If you have this problem, try the latest 2.5.1 snapshot from >>> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda >>> >>> Jean-Louis >> >> Ok, I understand that I'll have to modify a few things to advance to >> these newer versions. I have the wiki page bookmarked but have not >> done other than the bsd-auth stuff. Can you note any differences >> between the wiki and now for 2.5.1-20060919? > >There is no difference. > I just found one: ============ [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# su amanda -c "amcheck Daily" Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /dumps: 11881 MB disk space available, using 12166156 MB slot 5: read label `Dailys-5', date `20060901001501' NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Tape Dailys-5 label ok Server check took 0.075 seconds
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- ERROR: NAK coyote: user amanda from coyote.coyote.den is not allowed to execute the service noop: Please add "amdump" to the line in /home/amanda/.amandahosts Client check: 2 hosts checked in 0.226 seconds, 1 problem found (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.1-20060919) ========= I either miss-read the instructions on modifying the servers ~/.amandahosts file, or the wiki is wrong. In either event I had to make that particular line read: ===========~/.amandahosts snip======== coyote.coyote.den amanda amdump amindexd amidxtaped coyote amanda amdump amindexd amidxtaped coyote.coyote.den root amdump amindexd amidxtaped gene.coyote.den root amdump amindexd amidxtaped gene root amdump amindexd amidxtaped ========== and then amcheck was happy. Some of that is probably spurious, but since I'm behind the firewall from hell, its basicly a shrug. >Jean-Louis -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
