Since maxdumps is set to two, 2 backups have been made without problem. Furthermore, I have removed the suspicious 127.0.0.2 in my /etc/hosts and I am happy to say that it does not make any difference (nothing broken before, nothing broken after:-).
Thanks for the support! Charles On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:30:27 -0400 "Dustin J. Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Charles Stroom > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dustin, thanks for the analysis and is seems to make sense because > > indeed in the /etc/services only 703 and 708 are unassigned in > > between 700-710. However, my amanda is installed from rpm from the > > download area of amanda (opensuse 10), and I really hesitate to do > > a compile from source. In amanda.conf maxdumps was set to 3; I > > have set it now to 2, would that not solve the problem because 2 > > ports are available? > > Should work. You could also probably safely delete some services > you're not using. > > > I have little knowledge about the meaning of all this and above the > > line with CSt, it is generated (I think). Is it not simply that > > localhost (== fiume, == fiume.localnet) can be addressed as > > 127.0.0.1 or 127.0.0.2? > > I think that's pretty definitely broken, although I don't think it > caused this particular problem. Do you have an interface configured > at 127.0.0.2? I doubt it. If not, comment out the 127.0.0.2 line and > you will probably find many broken things no longer broken :) > > Dustin > -- Charles Stroom email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.")
