Re: ERROR: 192.168.0.73: [host u03: port 57341 not secure]

2004-01-08 Thread John Dalbec
Eugen Leitl wrote: Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Would it help if I do a ./configure --with-user=root ? Don't Do That. Amanda won't (and shouldn't) run that way. But you do I know. I was just getting desperate, and started tweaking random things. need to do 'make install' as root, as

Re: ERROR: 192.168.0.73: [host u03: port 57341 not secure]

2004-01-08 Thread John Dalbec
Eugen Leitl wrote: Andrea Dell'Amico wrote: Don't do that, neither. Assign the group backup to the amanda user, chown root /usr/local/sbin/amcheck, and then rerun it as amanda. I've done what Gene Heskett said: # cat /etc/group ... backup::303:amanda ... # cat /etc/passwd ...

Re: dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?

2004-01-05 Thread John Dalbec
Georg Rehfeld wrote: Hi Kurt, John and all others, Kurt Yoder wrote: John Dalbec said: So the dumper immediately reports 'connection refused' when attempting to connect to the taper process. Wrong permissions? Wrong permissions on what? It's a TCP connection over the loopback. What

Re: dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?

2004-01-05 Thread John Dalbec
Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:31:18PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: It just occurred to me that maybe this is a side effect of /etc/hosts cache poisoning (courtesy of Red Hat Linux 7.3 NSCD). We've been getting e-mail from a netblock in Vietnam that reverse-resolves

Re: dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?

2004-01-02 Thread John Dalbec
Georg Rehfeld wrote: John Dalbec wrote: Georg Rehfeld wrote: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: mail03 /var/spool/mail lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] mail03 /home lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed] Did you try amstatus? It should give the reason. Also look

Re: dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?

2003-12-31 Thread John Dalbec
OK, that was the magic incantation. But what would cause a connection failure over the loopback interface? My firewall trusts it and I don't see any dropped packets. Using /var/lib/amanda/WeeklySet1/amdump.1 from Mon Dec 29 00:45:01 EST 2003 mail01:/ 0

dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?

2003-12-30 Thread John Dalbec
I can't find anything in /tmp/amanda or /var/log/messages. Am I just not looking in the right places? Thanks, John These dumps were to tape WeeklySet116. The next tape Amanda expects to use is: WeeklySet117. FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: mail03 /var/spool/mail lev 0 FAILED [dump to

Re: dump to tape failed - how to diagnose?

2003-12-30 Thread John Dalbec
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:04:29AM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: I can't find anything in /tmp/amanda or /var/log/messages. Am I just not looking in the right places? Thanks, John You are not using any holding disk, is that intentional? I have two holding disks specified

Re: amanda-patches?

2003-10-02 Thread John Dalbec
Todd Kover wrote: I went to the amanda-patches page to download patches for 2.4.2p2 but the links are broken. Where can I get the patches? I'm running Red Hat 7.3 so I think I need to keep using 2.4.2p2. This has been repaired and the patches accessible again (assuming you haven't

amanda-patches?

2003-08-10 Thread John Dalbec
I went to the amanda-patches page to download patches for 2.4.2p2 but the links are broken. Where can I get the patches? I'm running Red Hat 7.3 so I think I need to keep using 2.4.2p2. Thanks, John Dalbec

Re: not secure port

2002-12-16 Thread John Dalbec
) to secure ports. You might consult Linksys to determine whether this is possible. John Dalbec I rebuilt amanda with the following: --with-tcpports=1500,2000 --with-udpports=800,900 with no luck. Could someone please advise. Tks, Steve Bertrand

Re: amanda/iptables problem

2002-10-21 Thread John Dalbec
John Dalbec wrote: I'm using Red Hat 7.1, kernel 2.4.9-34 w/ReiserFS quota patches. I've since rebuilt the kernel after doubling the UDP timeouts in ip_conntrack_proto_udp.c. So far this seems to be working... Thanks, John Dalbec

Re: use --build, --host, --target

2002-09-24 Thread John Dalbec
Hadad wrote: Hi ! I get a wrong version before Well, now I get the right version, and the errors change: [root@localhost amanda-2.4.3b4]# ./configure --disable-libtool --without-client --with-user=amanda and --with-group=amanda Take out the word and here and you should be OK.

Re: use --build, --host, --target

2002-09-24 Thread John Dalbec
Sorry, I forgot to put a hard line break. Trying again... Hadad wrote: Hi ! I get a wrong version before Well, now I get the right version, and the errors change: [root@localhost amanda-2.4.3b4]# ./configure --disable-libtool --without-client --with-user=amanda and

Re: amanda/iptables problem

2002-09-18 Thread John Dalbec
Galen Johnson wrote: John Dalbec wrote: I sometimes get sendsize packets being dropped by iptables, presumably because the iptables connection tracking decided the UDP connection was closed. This causes the estimates to take much longer because the first sendsize process gives up

amanda/iptables problem

2002-09-17 Thread John Dalbec
I sometimes get sendsize packets being dropped by iptables, presumably because the iptables connection tracking decided the UDP connection was closed. This causes the estimates to take much longer because the first sendsize process gives up. Has anyone found a solution to this? Thanks, John

Re: amcheck selfcheck request timeout

2002-07-29 Thread John Dalbec
http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/16.html janebackup wrote: Hi, I'm using amanda 2.4.3b3 on my Linux machine, I am just trying to backup one directory on this one machine and I'm having probems. When I run amcheck I get: WARNING: dataserv: selfcheck request timeout. Host

Re: RedHat, amanda, and permission denied

2002-07-25 Thread John Dalbec
-devel (only needed for development work). They should all be on your distribution CDs. John Dalbec OT: How are the IOCCC results coming along? best luck doing the compile. Just an FYI Doug -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25

Re: Device Compatibility

2002-07-11 Thread John Dalbec
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:05:22PM +0930, Adam Smith wrote: I've been looking around at tape drives and backup software, and I had Amanda recommended to me. Upon looking at amanda.org, I didn't see any kind of Hardware Compatibility list. Is this more dependant

Re: Strange 'dumper died' errors

2002-06-23 Thread John Dalbec
Double check that you don't have a file size limit for anybody in /etc/security/limits.conf. Note that if your personal account has a file size limit and you su and su amanda -c ... the file size limit is carried forward through the sus. If this is reproducible, you could try running an

Re: Partitioning for amanda

2002-04-25 Thread John Dalbec
Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We are just about to start on the upgrade of our Linux file server. When we are done, it will have: - -Approx 100GB SCSI RAID (approx 40% capacity utilised) - -Approx 45GB IDE RAID (approx 60% utilised) - -Approx

Re: Stumped with a core dump

2002-04-17 Thread John Dalbec
Brian M. Weir wrote: Are there any patches I might be missing or is this fixed in a BETA version of Amanda? The segfault issue is fixed in the HEAD branch of CVS. I'm not sure exactly when it was patched. However, you need to figure out where the invalid information is coming from that

Re: amanda compile error

2002-03-11 Thread John Dalbec
Davidson, Brian wrote: I'm trying to build amanda on an NCR 3430 running MP-RAS. While compiling I got the following error: In file included from alloc.c:33: amanda.h:1092: conflicting types for `strncasecmp' /usr/include/strings.h:32: previous declaration of `strncasecmp'

Re: [Amanda-users] amrecover: did not get a reserved port: 50059

2002-03-06 Thread John Dalbec
This is fixed in CVS. The following patch fixed the problem for me, but YMMV. In particular, if your firewall is picky about source ports for outgoing connections, it won't help you. Note that this is *not* the patch in CVS; OTOH it only affects one file rather than two. It also brings the

Re: amrecover doesn't mount tape

2002-02-27 Thread John Dalbec
Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote: solution to this? I sure hope 'amrecover' doesn't require me to load the tape manually. It does. You have to insert the tape as directed. I can see why amrecover does this when no changer is defined. But why can't it issue 'amtape ... slot ##' commands

Re: Amcheck reports no tape online

2002-02-19 Thread John Dalbec
Fix the setuid-root errors first, then run amcheck again. You may find that your permissions problems are gone. John Kyle S. Allender wrote: I'm having a problem with the following: RedHat 7.1, Amanda 2.4.2p2. Tape drive is an Ecrix device. Amanda user = amanda Amanda group =

misleading configure.in comments

2002-01-09 Thread John Dalbec
configure.in says: AC_ARG_WITH(portrange, [ --with-portrange=low,high bind unreserved TCP server sockets to ports within this range [unlimited]], [ TCPPORTRANGE=$withval ] ) but --with-portrange also binds TCP client sockets (not just server sockets) to ports

Re: Excludes not working

2001-12-05 Thread John Dalbec
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 10:10am, Stephen Carville wrote I have an exclude list that looks like: /proc /devices /tmp /temp /var/lock /var/spool/postfix/private /spool/postfix/private /var/tmp /lost+found *..LCK But amrecover tells me that

Re: Strange 'dumper died' errors

2001-11-21 Thread John Dalbec
Double check that you don't have a file size limit for anybody in /etc/security/limits.conf. Note that if your personal account has a file size limit and you su and su amanda -c ... the file size limit is carried forward through the sus. If this is reproducible, you could try running an

amrecover confused by tapedev 0 config

2001-10-12 Thread John Dalbec
I'm using the tapedev 0 configuration style for chg-scsi as suggested in TAPE.CHANGERS. This confuses amrecover, which expects to see 0 as a valid tape device rather than looking for the changer config file to determine the correct tape device. Yes, I can use the settape(sp?) command, but it's

tape drive cleaning

2001-10-12 Thread John Dalbec
Does amanda take it upon herself to clean the tape drive after a certain amount of use? If so, how is this controlled? The manual for our tape drive says to clean it only when the front panel display requests it. Thanks, John

Re: Change dc=xxxxx

2001-10-10 Thread John Dalbec
Pierangelo Masarati wrote: Carlos Eduardo Gomes Marins wrote: Hi, I want to know if thereis any way to change the name of a dc entry. The structure of my Ldap Server is similar to this: dn: dc=arbi, dc=rsfn, dc=net, dc=br objectClass: inetOrgPerson This looks like a