On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 04:25:07 PM Jean-Louis Martineau did opine:
> gene heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:23:04 AM Jean-Louis Martineau did opine:
[...]
> >> Now that you finally posted your xinetd file, I can tell you what's
> >> wrong. Fix the socket_type, protocol and wait lines.
> >>
> >> Tell me how the man page can be improved?
> >
> > By pointing out that the wait, socket type, and protocol also change.
> > If it is mentioned, it is not mentioned in the context that seems to
> > apply.
>
> It is in the example for xinetd configuration for bsdtcp, what is wrong
> with that example?
Up till now, 'wait' had always been 'no', for about a decade and change and
unless doing a blink compare to see the diff, there is nothing to tell the
user it should now be 'yes'.
> > Now, I have done those changes to my local xinetd.d/amanda, so it
> > looks like this:
> >
> > [root@coyote example]# cat /etc/xinetd.d/amanda
> > # default = off
> > #
> > # description: Part of the Amanda server package
> > # This is the list of daemons & such it needs
> > service amanda
> > {
> >
> > disable = no
> > only_from = coyote.coyote.den shop.coyote.den
> > flags = IPv4
> > socket_type = stream
> > protocol = tcp
> > wait = no
> > user = amanda
> > group = disk
> > groups = yes
> > server = /usr/local/libexec/amanda/amandad
> > server_args = -auth=bsdtcp amdump
> >
> > # amindexd amidxtaped
> > }
> > #service amandaidx
> > #{
> > # disable = no
> > # socket_type = stream
> > # protocol = tcp
> > # wait = no
> > # user = amanda
> > # group = disk
> > # groups = yes
> > # server = /usr/local/libexec/amanda/amindexd
> > #}
> > #service amidxtape
> > #{
> > # disable = no
> > # socket_type = stream
> > # protocol = tcp
> > # wait = no
> > # user = amanda
> > # group = disk
> > # groups = yes
> > # server = /usr/local/libexec/amanda/amidxtaped
> > #}
> >
> > And amcheck is now happy with _this_ machine. However when I made
> > similar changes to the shop machines inetd.conf as show by this grep:
> >
> >
> >
> > I changed inetd.conf on the shop machine to:
> > amanda stream tcp nowait backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad amandad
> > -auth=bsdtcp amdump
> >
> > But the amcheck still fails:
> > WARNING: shop: selfcheck request failed: Connection refused
> > Client check: 2 hosts checked in 10.050 seconds. 1 problem found.
>
> inetd config looks good, do you restarted inetd daemon?
>
inetd is 100% on demand, there is no daemon.
> > That amcheck*debug is attached. I also found the log files on the
> > shop machine, but these amcheck runs are not generating a log.
>
> If inetd do not execute amandad, then amandad is not run and it can
> write a log file.
> You must check the inetd log.
No such beast exists on that machine.
> Jean-Louis
Thanks Jean-Louis
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