Another user trying amanda and xinetd

2003-07-08 Thread Josh Welch
RedHat 6.2 machine running inetd. The Red Hat 7.3 client machine, udt.buffalowildwings.com, is running amanda from xinetd and I am getting selfcheck request timed out for that host when I run amcheck. The issue does appear to be with the xinetd setup as I have good connectivity and name resolution

RE: Another user trying amanda and xinetd - argh

2003-07-08 Thread Josh Welch
, udt.buffalowildwings.com, is running amanda from xinetd and I am getting selfcheck request timed out for that host when I run amcheck. The issue does appear to be with the xinetd setup as I have good connectivity and name resolution between the client and the server, I can ping the client from the server

Re: Another user trying amanda and xinetd

2003-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
on. I have one client that is dumping fine, older RedHat 6.2 machine running inetd. The Red Hat 7.3 client machine, udt.buffalowildwings.com, is running amanda from xinetd and I am getting selfcheck request timed out for that host when I run amcheck. The issue does appear to be with the xinetd

Re: Another user trying amanda and xinetd - argh

2003-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 19:20, Josh Welch wrote: My apologies for polluting the list with this, its annoying, really annoying. It turns out that the statement: includedir /etc/xinetd.d was commented out of xinetd.conf. I'm going home, that sucked. Josh Humm... Josh, an even better question

Re: Another user trying amanda and xinetd - argh

2003-07-08 Thread Josh Welch
Gene Heskett said: Humm... Josh, an even better question might be, howinhell did it get commented out? I'd be wearing my sherlock cap on that one. Walking very softly, and listening very carefully. Well, I am not the only one with root access to this particular machine currently. It is

Re: Another user trying amanda and xinetd - argh

2003-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 22:21, Josh Welch wrote: Gene Heskett said: Humm... Josh, an even better question might be, howinhell did it get commented out? I'd be wearing my sherlock cap on that one. Walking very softly, and listening very carefully. Well, I am not the only one with root access

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 01:53, Mike Eldridge wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:31:20PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: There has to be some reason the services won't start, so please post an 'ls -l' of the /usr/local/libexec directory. Also an 'ls -l' of the amanda src directory, and a 'cat'

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
having serious problems getting amanda to function on a server running xinetd. the amanda setup on this particular box runs fine with inetd, but i cannot get xinetd to cooperate with me. [snip] It does not contain a disable = yes/no line. i've tried with and without. it has

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:36:23AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: xinetd isn't a pos, its quite a bit more secure, and less wastefull of system resources than inetd because things don't get started at boot time and left around in case they are needed, they are started on demand, and killed when

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 10:07, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:36:23AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: xinetd isn't a pos, its quite a bit more secure, and less wastefull of system resources than inetd because things don't get started at boot time and left around in case they

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Mike Eldridge
any effects changing when connecting after config changes? ? i don't notice any change in behavior of amanda. xinetd logs notices of service changes, if that's what you're referring to. What's the output of xinetd in the message log when it starts up? when xinetd starts up? Jun 10 14:21

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Mike Eldridge
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:36:23AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: 1: Are the 3 utilities named in the file I sent present and accounted for, or are we playing mix-n-match here between an rpm install, and a home built install? rpm doesn't put them in the above location IIRC, but its been

RE: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Bernhard Beck
in behavior of amanda. xinetd logs notices of service changes, if that's what you're referring to. I meant, any change in behaviour (xinetd, amanda,...). So, you are changing the xinetd config, but nothing changes in the resulting behaviour... ok. Jun 10 14:21:54 [xinetd] xinetd Version

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-10 Thread Mike Eldridge
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:31:20PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: There has to be some reason the services won't start, so please post an 'ls -l' of the /usr/local/libexec directory. Also an 'ls -l' of the amanda src directory, and a 'cat' of your configuration script. /usr/local/libexec:

problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Eldridge
all, i'm having serious problems getting amanda to function on a server running xinetd. the amanda setup on this particular box runs fine with inetd, but i cannot get xinetd to cooperate with me. the skinny: upon amcheck, xinetd attempts to spawn 25 amandad processes, generating 25

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 June 2003 14:10, Mike Eldridge wrote: all, i'm having serious problems getting amanda to function on a server running xinetd. the amanda setup on this particular box runs fine with inetd, but i cannot get xinetd to cooperate with me. the skinny: upon amcheck, xinetd attempts

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen D. Lane
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:10:19PM -0500, Mike Eldridge wrote: all, i'm having serious problems getting amanda to function on a server running xinetd. the amanda setup on this particular box runs fine with inetd, but i cannot get xinetd to cooperate with me. the skinny: upon

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Wayne Richards
to function on a server running xinetd. the amanda setup on this particular box runs fine with inetd, but i cannot get xinetd to cooperate with me. the skinny: upon amcheck, xinetd attempts to spawn 25 amandad processes, generating 25 pairs of START/FAIL lines in my logs. after the 25

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Eldridge
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:29:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 09 June 2003 14:10, Mike Eldridge wrote: all, i'm having serious problems getting amanda to function on a server running xinetd. the amanda setup on this particular box runs fine with inetd, but i cannot get xinetd

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Eldridge
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:36:57PM -0400, Wayne Richards wrote: Well, now Mike, here's my setup and it works fine: :( i've heard dozens of people say that. i've tried dozens of permutations of setup. { socket_type = dgram protocol= udp

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 June 2003 15:03, Mike Eldridge wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:29:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 09 June 2003 14:10, Mike Eldridge wrote: all, i'm having serious problems getting amanda to function on a server running xinetd. the amanda setup on this particular

Re: problems using amanda with xinetd

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Eldridge
on a server running xinetd. the amanda setup on this particular box runs fine with inetd, but i cannot get xinetd to cooperate with me. [snip] It does not contain a disable = yes/no line. i've tried with and without. it has no effect. 1: Are the 3 utilities named in the file I

Amanda and xinetd

2002-06-11 Thread Cory Visi
Well all my problems are basically due to the fact that Amanda refuses to work with xinetd. This was suggested by someone on the list and I finally decided to try it. Why doesn't Amanda work with xinetd? There is no good debugging log that would help in figuring out this problem. Amandad clearly

RE: Amanda and xinetd

2002-06-11 Thread Doug Johnson
: Amanda and xinetd Well all my problems are basically due to the fact that Amanda refuses to work with xinetd. This was suggested by someone on the list and I finally decided to try it. Why doesn't Amanda work with xinetd? There is no good debugging log that would help in figuring out this problem

Re: Amanda and xinetd

2002-06-11 Thread Cory Visi
root 14u IPv6 158567UDP *:amanda xinetd 12500 root 16u IPv6 158569TCP *:amandaidx (LISTEN) xinetd 12500 root 17u IPv6 158570TCP *:amidxtape (LISTEN) Based on all the suggestions, here is my relevant xinetd.conf configuration: service

Re: Amanda and xinetd

2002-06-11 Thread Stephen Carville
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Cory Visi wrote: - Well all my problems are basically due to the fact that Amanda refuses to - work with xinetd. This was suggested by someone on the list and I finally - decided to try it. Why doesn't Amanda work with xinetd? There is no good - debugging log that would help

RE: Amanda and xinetd

2002-06-11 Thread Ana Maria Escalante
Hi all: I was using amanda some months ago with several RedHat 6.2 clients and everything was working fine. I stoped using it for some time, because of some problems with the tape unit and now that I reinstalled it again are facing problems with the new RedHat 7.2 clients. Everything

RE: Amanda and xinetd

2002-06-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 at 12:43pm, Ana Maria Escalante wrote Everything seems to be well configured in the client. My amanda file in xinetd.d is the same as the one you have showed. My .amandahosts file is OK, as well as the /etc/services file. All the RedHat 6.2 clients are working fine,

RE: Amanda and xinetd

2002-06-11 Thread Lee Fellows
What does ls -ld on /dev and /dev/hda2 show you? What group(s) is amanda included in on the client? (This would appear to be a simple permissions problem) On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 14:43, Ana Maria Escalante wrote: Hi all: I was using amanda some months ago with several RedHat 6.2 clients

RE: Amanda and xinetd

2002-06-11 Thread Ana Maria Escalante
Hi Joshua: I already tried adding this line to /etc/xinetd.d/amanda , but didn´t help. I tried with amanda-2.4.3b2 and amanda-2.4.2p2, but neither worked. Thank you anyway for the advice. Regards Ana Maria On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 at

RE: Amanda and xinetd

2002-06-11 Thread Ana Maria Escalante
Hi Lee: That was what I first tought, but doesn´t seem to be the problem. amanda belongs to group disk in /etc/group. ls -ld on /dev/hda2 gives me the following: brw-rw1 root disk 3, 2 Aug 30 2001 /dev/hda2 and is the same that I get if I give the same command to

Amanda and xinetd

2001-03-14 Thread Raymond Bramwell
Hi there! I was just wondering if anyone has successfully configured amanda to backup clients running xinetd rather than inetd! If so could someone let me know what you need to put in /etc/xinetd.conf 'cos I'm really stumped, I've tried the following: service amanda { flags

Re: Amanda and xinetd

2001-03-14 Thread Jeff Bearer
If you are using RedHat 7 you might want to try the amanda 2.4.2 rpm from RedHat's rawhide ftp. It works well for me. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ Raymond Bramwell wrote: Hi there! I was just wondering if anyone has successfully configured amanda to backup

Re: Amanda and xinetd

2001-03-14 Thread Luc Lalonde
Here's my working version: service amanda { socket_type = dgram protocol = udp wait = yes user = amanda group = backup groups = yes server = /opt/libexec/amandad } service amandaidx { socket_type = dgram protocol = tcp

Re: Amanda and xinetd

2001-03-14 Thread Jon Nangle
"Raymond" == Raymond Bramwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Raymond In all these cases when I run amcheck Raymond on the amanda server it fails on this client with permission Raymond denied errors for each disk and the dumpdates file. Try adding 'groups = yes' to your service

Re: Amanda and xinetd

2001-03-14 Thread Walt Reed
hi raymond, i had the same problem as you because i named the config file in the /etc/xinet.d directory amanda, and not amandad. my config looks practically the same as yours, and i've noticed that if i have a failure with amanda (2.4.2) on my redhat 7.0 box that clearing the /tmp/amanda

Re: Amanda and xinetd

2001-03-14 Thread Len Burns
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Raymond Bramwell wrote: Hi there! I was just wondering if anyone has successfully configured amanda to backup clients running xinetd rather than inetd! If so could someone let me know what you need to put in /etc/xinetd.conf 'cos I'm really stumped, I've tried the