On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 07:40:24 PM Nathan Stratton Treadway did opine: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 16:39:51 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 04:25:07 PM Jean-Louis Martineau did opine: > > > inetd config looks good, do you restarted inetd daemon? > > > > inetd is 100% on demand, there is no daemon. > > I believe you said in an earlier post that your "shop" machine is > running Ubuntu 10.4 LTS/Lucid. > > On my Lucid machine, there is indeed an inetd process: > $ ps u -C inetd > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME > COMMAND root 1015 0.0 0.0 10372 696 ? Ss Feb08 > 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd > > ... and the inetd/inetd.conf man page contains the following lines: > > inetd rereads its configuration file when it receives a hangup > signal, SIGHUP. Services may be added, deleted or modified when the > configuration file is reread. > > These are part of the "openbsd-inetd" package: > $ dpkg -S inetd.conf.5 > openbsd-inetd: /usr/share/man/man5/inetd.conf.5.gz > > So running > $ sudo invoke-rc.d openbsd-inetd reload > should trigger the config-file reload. > > Hopefully that will be enough to get Amanda working again on that > machine... > > Nathan $ sudo invoke-rc.d openbsd-inetd reload was indeed the magic twanger Nathan. Amcheck is now as happy as a clam.
So, Jean-Louis, there is indeed the missing link in the amanda-auth manpage. You kept telling me to restart the Xinetd daemon, and I kept repeating that the ubuntu machine used inetd. The last time I had a machine that used inetd, was probably somewhere around redhat 5.2 maybe since the rest of the planet went to xinetd as soon as it was working. A dyed in the wool ubuntu person /might/ know that, but this fugitive from redhat/fedora, who is running 10.4 LTS on that machine because that is what the machine control software (emc) needs, has essentially zero chance of knowing his only ubuntu install that well. Throw in the fact that I just re-verified that 'locate' will not find openbsd-inetd when asked for inetd, and I assumed there was no such critter. So I don't feel so guilty now as I refuse to be held accountable for ubuntu's off the wall way of handling that. I did consider rebooting it, but since I was in the middle of carving tenons in gross lots, and digging mortises, also in gross lots, and the reboot would have meant I'd have to find the proper home position to continue the work, about an hours work all told, it didn't get done. Thanks Nathan, I appreciate it. A lot. -- 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) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> <http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html> If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires. -- Abigail Van Buren
