Thanks for the detailed info. Given that 3.3.2 for Ubuntu was released recently I uninstalled the server,common and the client, installed 3.3.2 and everything now works as expected; no changes needed anywhere.
Thanks Leo On 12/08/12 09:32, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 22:23:30 +1000, Subscriptions wrote: >> Hi have posted this in the forum too, but have had no replies >> >> I have now downgraded/installed 3.3.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS since the >> problem has been fixed but am now getting the following error >> >> WARNING: ml.zudiewiener.com: selfcheck request failed: >> tcpm_recv_token: invalid size: "amandad: running as user >> \"amandabackup\" instead of \"backup\"\n" >> Client check: 1 host checked in 0.045 seconds. 1 problem found. >> >> >> Everything is set up to use amandabackup as the user (and this >> worked for months prior to upgrading to 12.04), so not sure why it >> expects the user to be 'backup' > Debian (and thus Ubuntu) have always used the "backup" user in their > standard Amanda packages. So if your system was in fact using > "amandabackup" before 12.04, then you must have installed Amanda some > other way back then (e.g. from source, or using the .deb file from > amanda.org). > > Note, though, that there are accounts in use on both the client and the > server; it's certainly possible that your Ubuntu system was using > "backup" as the account on the client side while your server has been > using "amandabackup" all along. > > However, regarding your current problem: it does appear that the > /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file included in the 12.04 amanda-common package > specifies "user=amandabackup" for some reason; I assume this is a bug in > the packaging. > > (If you do a > $ grep inetd /var/lib/dpkg/info/amanda-common.postinst > , you'll see that the setup command used for other-than-xinetd internet > "super-server" daemons is > update-inetd --add "amanda stream tcp nowait backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad > amandad -auth=bsdtcp amdump amindexd amidxtaped" > ... i.e. it uses "backup" as the user.) > > So, if you haven't already done so, I think updating > /etc/xinetd.d/amanda so that the user= line uses "backup" should fix > your problem. > > Note that you probably don't need to edit the /etc/amandahosts file, > since that grants incoming permission to the account on the server side > (which presumably hasn't changed). > > Hope that helps. > > Nathan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Nathan Stratton Treadway - [email protected] - Mid-Atlantic region > Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ > GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 > Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239
