Hi Gene, 2012/4/6 gene heskett <[email protected]> > > On Friday, April 06, 2012 01:13:17 AM Nathan Stratton Treadway did opine: > > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 23:37:51 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > > $ netstat -a | grep amanda > > > > > > on those machines... > > > > > > Does the output from that command on 192.168.71.3 look any different > > > from that on your other clients? > > > > p.s. on my Lucid boxes, the Amanda client is invoked from inetd, so if > > netstat doesn't show the ports open then the issue is probably that > > inetd isn't running, or the amanda entry in /etc/inetd.conf has been > > changed. But I don't know off hand why both your machines would have > > problems with inet at the same time. > > > > (Obviously if you are using xinetd or whatever, check that instead.) > > > Something must have pulled in xinetd, which removed inetd on the shop box, > so I'm fixing that back to inetd since the .conf still exists. Apparently > no conflict. Since I know inetd was working until the 3rd, I have > reinstalled it on both machines. However amanda is running on this box > ATM, so I can't check with amcheck until that has finished. If this > doesn't do it, I'm back to square one. >
Have you tried $ amservice clienthostname yourauth noop </dev/null to see if you get an option string back? (per http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Selfcheck_request_failed) I've had similar experiences with clients suddenly disappearing and this has helped me to troubleshoot. HTH. Kind Regards, Chris
