Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2006-08-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 14 August 2006 00:52, Lengyel, Florian wrote: Pardon me: identd, not inetd. It wasn't a typo. I know about inetd and xinetd. I was disappointed to see that the debian hosts use inetd instead of xinetd. My bad, I actually missread it. Sorry. So was I, even more disappointed to see that

RE: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2006-08-13 Thread Lengyel, Florian
Title: RE: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Pardon me: identd, not inetd. It wasn't a typo. I know about inetd and xinetd. I was disappointed to see that the debian hosts use inetd instead of xinetd. -FL -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gene Heskett

Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.

2006-02-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 02/14/2006 02:25 AM, Kevin Till wrote: *Assume all outgoing packets are accepted/allowed.* For amdump to work, you need to open up: backup client : 10080(udp), a small range of tcp ports for data transfer e.g. 11000:11030 (recompile amanda with --with-tcpportrange=11000,11030) For

Re: [Fwd: Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.]

2006-02-14 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi Paul Bijnes Was the UDP also to be recompiled --with-udpportrange=11000,11030 thus the same port range as tcp. Cheers On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:19 +, chuck.amadi wrote: email message attachment (Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? thisis a private IP

Re: [Fwd: Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.]

2006-02-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 02/14/2006 10:11 AM, Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi Paul Bijnes Was the UDP also to be recompiled --with-udpportrange=11000,11030 thus the same port range as tcp. no, the only UDP connection is the one to 10080. But do allow the reply packet: in iptables, this is

Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.

2006-02-14 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Hi I have re compiled amanda client on the server that sits outside of my LAN with the following port range. --with-udpportrange=1100,11030 Thus you stating that it must be a system udp port range i.e 1023 If So I have Unassigned range -f 1001-1009 So I would use this when I re compile a udp

WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.

2006-02-13 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
10.788 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 4 hosts checked in 29.328 seconds, 1 problem found -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing

Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.

2006-02-13 Thread Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 4 hosts checked in 29.328 seconds, 1 problem found -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator Chuck Amadi The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory

Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.

2006-02-13 Thread Kevin Till
Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi List I had a look on the amanda client less /tmp/amanda less amandad.20060213153537.debug Here is the debug report: Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 003-E0990808 SEQ 1139841004 SECURITY USER amanda SERVICE noop OPTIONS features=feff9ffe0f;

Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.

2006-02-13 Thread chuck.amadi
10.788 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 4 hosts checked in 29.328 seconds, 1 problem found Hi List I have had a read and digest of the following. Chapter 22. How

Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.

2006-02-13 Thread chuck.amadi
Kevin Till wrote: Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi List I had a look on the amanda client less /tmp/amanda less amandad.20060213153537.debug Here is the debug report: Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 003-E0990808 SEQ 1139841004 SECURITY USER amanda SERVICE noop OPTIONS

Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.

2006-02-13 Thread Kevin Till
chuck.amadi wrote: Cheers I did google this But I am using ipchains. iptables replaces ipchains. ipchains is pretty much obsolete now, I would upgrade to iptables. Are there any examples for me to look at. the basic idea should be the same. *Assume all outgoing packets are

Re: WARNING: server.my.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? this is a private IP address.

2006-02-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 13 February 2006 20:10, chuck.amadi wrote: Kevin Till wrote: Chuck Amadi Systems Administrator wrote: Hi List I had a look on the amanda client less /tmp/amanda less amandad.20060213153537.debug Here is the debug report: Amanda 2.4 REQ HANDLE 003-E0990808 SEQ 1139841004

Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-11-23 Thread Nader Amadeu
Hello, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: My /tmp/amcheck.20051121214741.debug file has: There's no /tmp/amanda*debug (or /tmp/amanda/amanda*debug)? In that case, it can't even talk to the server. Are you using TCP wrappers? Any firewall issues? Sorry, the file is actually

Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-11-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
called kenai and typed: SHELL: amcheck kenai . . (server check ok) . Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: kenai.chemie.fu-berlin.de: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? *snip* I overchecked the files .../config/kenai/disklist (this uses

selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-11-21 Thread Nader Amadeu
kenai . . (server check ok) . Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: kenai.chemie.fu-berlin.de: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Relevant parts of my .../kenai/amanda.conf file are: -- tpchanger chg-disk tapedev

Re: Fwd: Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-06 Thread shoaib r
Yes this was the debug file resulting from the "start manually and wait30 seconds" . As yet I have no debug file produced from inetd.Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shoaib r wrote: This is the /tmp/amanda/amandad.20051005130850.debug file on the CLIENT server (bkpclient): amandad: debug 1

Re: Fwd: Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-06 Thread Paul Bijnens
shoaib r wrote: Yes this was the debug file resulting from the start manually and wait 30 seconds . As yet I have no debug file produced from inetd. Then I would conclude that you have a problem with your inetd configuration. -- Paul Bijnens, XplanationTel +32 16

Re: Fwd: Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-06 Thread shoaib r
Fair enough, I'll check again. f.y.i I ran a snoop from the client (bkpclient) whilst running an "amcheck -c daily" on the server (tapesvr) and this is what I got: tapesvr - bkpclient UDP D=10080 S=980 LEN=125bkpclient - tapesvr ICMP Destination unreachable (UDP port 10080 unreachable)tapesvr -

WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-05 Thread shoaib r
Hi folks I've been trying to get Amanda to be able to query the one backup client host that I have with no luck. I've been thru all the tech pages with no progress yet. Am I missing something? My .amandahosts file has the FQDN and I've only got one line specified for the client as a test in the

Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-05 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:53:26AM -0400, Scott R. Burns enlightened us: Is the error report reporting the FQDN or a shorter name. Try putting the name it is reporting in the .amandahosts. If it was a problem with .amandahosts, it would most likely be returning a Permission Denied from Host

Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
shoaib r wrote: I've been trying to get Amanda to be able to query the one backup client host that I have with no luck. I've been thru all the tech pages with no progress yet. Am I missing something? We miss the exact error messages. :-) My .amandahosts file has the FQDN and I've only

Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-05 Thread shoaib r
Thanks for the responses so far folks Ok. I have 2 hosts tapesrv and bkpclient The error message is: + running on tapesvr + $ amcheck -c daily Amanda Backup Client Hosts CheckWARNING: tapesvr.b.c.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?Client

Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-05 Thread Alexander Jolk
shoaib r wrote: Thanks for the responses so far folks Ok. I have 2 hosts tapesrv and bkpclient The error message is: + running on tapesvr + $ amcheck -c daily Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: tapesvr.b.c.uk: selfcheck request timed

Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-05 Thread shoaib r
and bkpclient The error message is: + running on tapesvr + $ amcheck -c daily Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: tapesvr.b.c.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 2 hosts checked in 30.072 seconds, 1 problem found (brought to you

Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-05 Thread Alexander Jolk
shoaib r wrote: + running on tapesvr + $ amcheck -c daily Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: tapesvr.b.c.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 2 hosts checked in 30.072 seconds, 1

Fwd: Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-05 Thread shoaib r
: time 30.006: pid 7021 finish time Wed Oct 5 13:09:20 2005Alexander Jolk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shoaib r wrote: sorry Alexander My mistake. As I'm working on a gov't project, I had to change the hostnames for aliases for the amanda mailing list. I basically vut and paste the wrong alias. Here

Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-05 Thread shoaib r
I've checked there are definately no firewalls between. Also both servers are connected to the same switch.Alexander Jolk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shoaib r wrote: This is the /tmp/amanda/amandad.20051005130850.debug file on the CLIENT server (bkpclient):[...] amandad: time 30.005: dgram_recv:

Re: Fwd: Re: WARNING: hostxxx: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-10-05 Thread Paul Bijnens
shoaib r wrote: This is the /tmp/amanda/amandad.20051005130850.debug file on the CLIENT server (bkpclient): amandad: debug 1 pid 7021 ruid 198 euid 198: start at Wed Oct 5 13:08:50 2005 amandad: version 2.4.5 ... amandad: time 30.005: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds Was this the

WARNING: server.domian.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-17 Thread Chuck Amadi
anyone have any ideas? When I run the following server:/usr/lib/amanda # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck -c DailySet1 Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 30.003

Re: WARNING: server.domian.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-17 Thread Martin Hepworth
WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 30.003 seconds, 1 problem found As I am back to this - going backwards. I have read and digested the doc's but this is now getting frustrating . My /var/log/messages info as below

Re: WARNING: server.domian.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-17 Thread Alexander Jolk
Chuck Amadi wrote: server:/usr/lib/amanda # su amanda -c /usr/sbin/amcheck -c DailySet1 Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 30.003 seconds, 1 problem found And now

Re: WARNING: server.domian.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-17 Thread Chuck Amadi
/amcheck -c DailySet1 Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 30.003 seconds, 1 problem found And now do you have messages in /tmp/amanda? Could you cite them

Re: WARNING: server.domian.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-17 Thread Alexander Jolk
Chuck Amadi wrote: amandad: time 29.996: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds amandad: error receiving message: timeout amandad: time 29.996: error receiving message: timeout amandad: time 29.996: pid 26781 finish time Tue May 17 13:20:13 2005 It would appear that the UDP packets for communication

Re: WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? -Fixed!

2005-05-12 Thread Chuck Amadi
Hi I did and it's working I had used the wrong path where my tar was located. Cheers Chuck On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 17:42 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Hi, Chuck, on Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 at 15:57 you wrote to amanda-users: CA Here's my advance I will sort this alot out as it's self

WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-10 Thread Chuck Amadi
timed out. Host down? Any other areas to checkover I have gone through this with a fine tooth comb. Cheers -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Tel: +44 1656 752820

Re: WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-10 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:52:32PM +0100, Chuck Amadi enlightened us: Also in /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts I have my client setup as below #localhost amanda server.domain.co.uk /etc comp-root-tar This is wrong. you've put a disklist entry in amandahosts. amandahosts should contain host

Re: WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Chuck, on Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 at 13:52 you wrote to amanda-users: CA Hi I added the files amanda and amandaix to /etc/xinetd.d CA enable running chkconfig -s xinetd 345 and run /etc/init/xinet.d restart CA shutdown SuSE internal firewall. CA server:~ # netstat -a | grep -i amanda CA tcp

Re: WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? -Fixed!

2005-05-10 Thread Chuck Amadi
I got a bit further I had forgot to add - server.domain.co.uk root as well as server.domain.co.uk amanda. Here's my advance I will sort this alot out as it's self explanatory. Amanda Tape Server Host Check - Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 137244996 KB disk space

Re: WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? -Fixed!

2005-05-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Chuck, on Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 at 15:57 you wrote to amanda-users: CA Here's my advance I will sort this alot out as it's self explanatory. and CA Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check CA CA ERROR: server.domain.co.uk: [GNUTAR program not available] Install

WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-09 Thread Chuck Amadi
Hosts Check WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 30.002 seconds, 1 problem found I assume that I my tape server cant see the client which is the same machine. I have checked and I have got in the /etc

WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-09 Thread Chuck Amadi
: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Any Ideas relating to my Client being down. -- Unix/ Linux Systems Administrator The Surgical Material Testing Laboratory (SMTL), Princess of Wales Hospital Coity Road Bridgend, United Kingdom, CF31 1RQ. Tel: +44 1656 752820 Fax

Re: WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Hepworth
*:amandaidx (LISTEN) server:~ # Also in /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts I have my client #localhost amanda server.domain.co.uk /etc comp-root-tar But I still get WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Any Ideas relating to my Client being down

WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-08 Thread Chuck Amadi
check took 0.013 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 30.002 seconds, 1 problem found Have I got to create a file in /etc/xinit.d/amidxtape As I haven't got

Re: WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-05-08 Thread Frank Smith
Hosts Check WARNING: server.domain.co.uk: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 30.002 seconds, 1 problem found Have I got to create a file in /etc/xinit.d/amidxtape Only on the server, not on all the clients. As I

SAMBA: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2004-03-11 Thread Tim Krieglstein
WARNING: snap1: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? WARNING: wins4: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 3 hosts checked in 29.156 seconds, 2 problems found The disklist: snap1 //snap1/iss/ samba wins4 //wins4/software/ samba sun10 /var/www/ comp-user-tar

Re: SAMBA: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2004-03-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 at 1:40pm, Tim Krieglstein wrote The log of amcheck -c looks like this: Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check WARNING: snap1: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? WARNING: wins4: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 3

Re: SAMBA: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2004-03-11 Thread Tim Krieglstein
Hi Joshua The client in your disklist (the first column) for 'doze boxes backed up via samba needs to be a *nix box with smbclient installed. When amanda contacts the *nix box, that box will then initiate the smbclient connection to the 'doze box. Thanks for the hint. It did the trick.

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:47:24PM -, Dean Pullen wrote: Thanks for your interest and replys guys, I think we're getting closer to a solution [I hope]. I'm using SuSE 8.2 (but using the amanda rpm from SuSE 9.0) - which I believe uses xinetd. Not that I know the difference. I'm

RE: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Dean Pullen
Ok back at work... There seems to be no xinetd or inetd messages during startup (I performed a dmesg dmesg.txt and searched for xinetd/inetd). Is it worth trying to install xinetd from the supplied SuSE rpms? Note: The guy who first configured these machines has put various networking scripts

RE: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Dean Pullen
Just a quick note. Looking at the SuSE manuals, it appears SuSE 8.2 uses xinetd (whereas 8.1 uses inetd). Which makes me wonder why it doesn't appear in the start up log. Dean.

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 December 2003 05:01, Dean Pullen wrote: Ok back at work... There seems to be no xinetd or inetd messages during startup (I performed a dmesg dmesg.txt and searched for xinetd/inetd). Is it worth trying to install xinetd from the supplied SuSE rpms? Note: The guy who first

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 December 2003 05:36, Dean Pullen wrote: Just a quick note. Looking at the SuSE manuals, it appears SuSE 8.2 uses xinetd (whereas 8.1 uses inetd). Which makes me wonder why it doesn't appear in the start up log. Dean. Humm, it sure should. Do you have, in /etc/rc(your runlevel as

RE: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Dean Pullen
-Original Message- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 December 2003 11:03 To: Dean Pullen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? On Monday 22 December 2003 05:36, Dean Pullen wrote: Just a quick note. Looking

RE: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Dean Pullen
Performing an xinted from command line gives me this in my /var/log/messages: Dec 22 13:20:14 database01 xinetd[1716]: Reading included configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/amanda [line=26] Dec 22 13:20:14 database01 xinetd[1716]: Reading included configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/amandaidx

RE: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Dean Pullen
Doing this: # /etc/init.d/xinetd start Produces this: # Starting INET services. (xinetd) failed And by the way the end of the log states: Dec 22 13:39:38 database01 xinetd[1909]: 1909 {init_services} no services. Exiting...

RE: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Dean Pullen
Wooo hooo!! # Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check # # Client check: 1 host checked in 0.072 seconds, 0 problems found after much fiddling...and a manual execution of xinetd How do I go about booting xinetd at startup? The link in rc3.d doesn't seem to load

RE: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Dean Pullen
Oh well it seems to be coming up now on reboot, link seems to be working suddenly... Well all I can say is thank you very much for all the advice guys: Frank, Josh, Jon and especially Gene. I'm sure something else will crop up, but until then, happy Christmas/holidays and many many many thanks

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 December 2003 08:12, Dean Pullen wrote: [...] Gene, Well there was no link in any of the rcX.d directories. I tried adding one to rc3.d but xinetd still does not print anything on startup. Dean Ok, now my problem is in not knowing which runlevel is the full run but without x

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 December 2003 08:17, Dean Pullen wrote: Performing an xinted from command line gives me this in my /var/log/messages: Dec 22 13:20:14 database01 xinetd[1716]: Reading included configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/amanda [line=26] Dec 22 13:20:14 database01 xinetd[1716]: Reading

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 December 2003 08:36, Dean Pullen wrote: Doing this: # /etc/init.d/xinetd start Produces this: # Starting INET services. (xinetd) failed And by the way the end of the log states: Dec 22 13:39:38 database01 xinetd[1909]: 1909 {init_services} no

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 December 2003 08:57, Dean Pullen wrote: Wooo hooo!! # Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check # # Client check: 1 host checked in 0.072 seconds, 0 problems found after much fiddling...and a manual execution of xinetd How do I go about booting xinetd

RE: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Dean Pullen
Thanks for your interest and replys guys, I think we're getting closer to a solution [I hope]. I'm using SuSE 8.2 (but using the amanda rpm from SuSE 9.0) - which I believe uses xinetd. Not that I know the difference. I'm afraid I'm a bit of a newbie in all areas, so please bare with me.

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 December 2003 07:47, Dean Pullen wrote: Thanks for your interest and replys guys, I think we're getting closer to a solution [I hope]. I'm using SuSE 8.2 (but using the amanda rpm from SuSE 9.0) - which I believe uses xinetd. Not that I know the difference. I'm afraid I'm a bit of

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 December 2003 07:47, Dean Pullen wrote: Thanks for your interest and replys guys, I think we're getting closer to a solution [I hope]. I'm using SuSE 8.2 (but using the amanda rpm from SuSE 9.0) - which I believe uses xinetd. Not that I know the difference. I'm afraid I'm a bit of

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Dean Pullen
I did have the FQDN in the hosts file, then tried IP and just machine name on its own. Still no difference. Surely if amandad isn't running (which I think I've concluded from looking through the running processes and the fact that nothing appears in /tmp/amanda after startup), then I need to

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Dean Pullen
This .amandahosts file only needs to be configured on the machine to be backed up (client) as opposed to the machine backing up (server) yes? Dean.

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 December 2003 12:43, Dean Pullen wrote: I did have the FQDN in the hosts file, then tried IP and just machine name on its own. Still no difference. Surely if amandad isn't running (which I think I've concluded from looking through the running processes and the fact that nothing

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Frank Smith
--On Sunday, December 21, 2003 17:48:59 + Dean Pullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This .amandahosts file only needs to be configured on the machine to be backed up (client) as opposed to the machine backing up (server) yes? Dean. Technically, yes, but if the server is also a client

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Dean Pullen
-- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 December 2003 12:43, Dean Pullen wrote: I did have the FQDN in the hosts file, then tried IP and just machine name on its own. Still no difference. Surely if amandad isn't running (which I think I've concluded from

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Frank Smith
--On Sunday, December 21, 2003 17:43:21 + Dean Pullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did have the FQDN in the hosts file, then tried IP and just machine name on its own. Still no difference. Surely if amandad isn't running (which I think I've concluded from looking through the running

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Dean Pullen
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Sunday, December 21, 2003 17:43:21 + Dean Pullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did have the FQDN in the hosts file, then tried IP and just machine name on its own. Still no difference. Surely if amandad isn't

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 December 2003 13:02, Frank Smith wrote: --On Sunday, December 21, 2003 17:43:21 + Dean Pullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did have the FQDN in the hosts file, then tried IP and just machine name on its own. Still no difference. Surely if amandad isn't running (which I think

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 December 2003 13:09, Dean Pullen wrote: -- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 December 2003 12:43, Dean Pullen wrote: I did have the FQDN in the hosts file, then tried IP and just machine name on its own. Still no difference. Surely if

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 December 2003 13:26, Dean Pullen wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Sunday, December 21, 2003 17:43:21 + Dean Pullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did have the FQDN in the hosts file, then tried IP and just machine name on its own. Still

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 December 2003 13:26, Dean Pullen wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Sunday, December 21, 2003 17:43:21 + Dean Pullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did have the FQDN in the hosts file, then tried IP and just machine name on its own. Still

WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-20 Thread Dean Pullen
Hi. Having recently setup Amanda I'm having the following problem. Performing an amcheck gives: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Originally I thought this was a shorewall [firewall] problem as it reported that it was rejecting packets on port 10080

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 20 December 2003 04:33, Dean Pullen wrote: Hi. Having recently setup Amanda I'm having the following problem. Performing an amcheck gives: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Originally I thought this was a shorewall [firewall] problem

RE: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-20 Thread Dean Pullen
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Pullen Sent: 20 December 2003 09:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Hi. Having recently setup Amanda I'm having the following problem. Performing an amcheck gives: WARNING

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 20 December 2003 07:11, Dean Pullen wrote: I'm not actually getting any debug files in /tmp/amanda on my client machine (database01). Does this probably mean amandad isn't being run on startup? If I manually try to start amandad a debug file appears, so I believe all the directory

RE: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-20 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 at 3:54pm, Dean Pullen wrote Here is my amandad line in /etc/inetd.conf: amanda dgram udp waitamanda /usr/lib/amanda/amandad amandad I would strongly suspect that SuSE uses xinetd, not inetd. Look at the entries Gene posted. -- Joshua Baker-LePain

Re: WARNING: database01: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2003-12-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 20 December 2003 23:48, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 at 3:54pm, Dean Pullen wrote Here is my amandad line in /etc/inetd.conf: amanda dgram udp waitamanda /usr/lib/amanda/amandad amandad I would strongly suspect that SuSE uses xinetd, not inetd. Look

WARNING: dilmom: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-10-31 Thread Kevin Passey
Hi, We have had Amanda running for a while now - just recently we re-booted our server and are getting the following when AMCHECK is run - have I missed something. WARNING: dilmom: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? Client check: 1 host checked in 30.005 seconds, 1 problem found

Re: WARNING: hostname; selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-06-23 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 at 12:41pm, Rafe Thayer wrote I've been trying to configure an amanda client on a Sun box. When I do an amcheck the server checks out fine, but I get this warning from the client: WARNING: al-bundy.cs.ucla.edu: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? I've attached

Re: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-06-23 Thread Frank Smith
| | WARNING: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? | Client check: 1 host checked in 30.007 seconds, 1 problem found | | (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2) \- I've checked the inetd.conf, and I

WARNING: hostname; selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-06-23 Thread Rafe Thayer
Hi Folks, I've been trying to configure an amanda client on a Sun box. When I do an amcheck the server checks out fine, but I get this warning from the client: WARNING: al-bundy.cs.ucla.edu: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? I've attached the contents of the amandad.xxx.debug file from

Re: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-04-16 Thread Axel Schaefer
At 12:58 15.04.02 -0400, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: amanda prefers real host names, both in the .amandahosts and in the disklist. Try to avoid localhost. OK, done. Now, the FQDN is set. But the error is the same. I may be wrong, but I think the .amandahost file is supposed to be in

Re: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-04-15 Thread Doug Silver
: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? | Client check: 1 host checked in 30.007 seconds, 1 problem found | | (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.2p2) \- I've checked the inetd.conf, and I think, that the amanda.conf in /etc

RE: localhost: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-04-15 Thread Morse, Richard E.
Axel Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: The .amandahosts (in var/lib/amanda) shows this: amanda@ll11:~ less .amandahosts localhost amanda localhost root One of the standard recommendations is to never use 'localhost' -- use the FQDN... This might not solve your problem, but it's

selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-01-29 Thread Don Potter
Scenario: Solaris 2.7 and 2.8 Amanda 2.4.2p2 Ran amcheck of backup config (total of 28 hosts) and initially 10 hosts failed so I HUP'd the inetd on all of the hosts again and then only 2 failed. Ran a netstat -a|grep amanda and saw that the ports are listening. Ran the amcheck again and

Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-01-29 Thread John R. Jackson
... Ran the amcheck again and the amanda ports would be shut down with the following message in the /var/adm/message file: Jan 29 10:50:54 svr1 inetd[189]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning] /var/adm/amanda/li bexec/amandad: Hangup ... What's your inetd.conf line look like? Don Potter John R.

Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-01-29 Thread John R. Jackson
amandadgram udp wait amanda /var/adm/amanda/libexec/amandad amandad amandaidx stream tcp nowait amanda /var/adm/amanda/libexec/amindexd amindexd amidxtape stream tcp nowait amanda /var/adm/amanda/libexec/amidxtaped amidxtaped The lines came across in the E-mail broken as shown

Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-01-29 Thread Don Potter
Cut and paste ... it only croaks on the amcheck... no security packs. at all: the amandad will Hangup before providing any output.. John R. Jackson wrote: amandadgram udp wait amanda /var/adm/amanda/libexec/amandad amandad amandaidx stream tcp nowait amanda

Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-01-29 Thread John R. Jackson
it only croaks on the amcheck... Huh??? It **doesn't** fail for amdump? the amandad will Hangup before providing any output.. Huh??? Did you try either of the other debug tricks I sent? John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-01-29 Thread Don Potter
dum fails as well (should of specified )..running the test that you specified I recieved the following in the /var/adm/messages: Jan 29 13:48:18 helix inetd[189]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning] /usr/bin/truss: Hangup Jan 29 13:48:26 helix last message repeated 38 times Jan 29 13:48:26 helix

Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-01-29 Thread John R. Jackson
Jan 29 13:48:18 helix inetd[189]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning] /usr/bin/truss: Hangup ... Jan 29 13:50:28 helix inetd[189]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning] /tmp/amanda_test: Hangup Something is seriously wonky about your system if you can't run these things. Try one more test without Amanda in the

Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-01-29 Thread Don Potter
Launching the daemon as root works just fine.I didn't even think about the library issue. the access time never changed on amandad until I changed the daemon owner...now comes the fun part ot figure out which library has a permission issue.. But I should be able to discern

Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-01-29 Thread Tim Tuck
Hi Don, I've been following this discussion and you might have what my Solaris boxs did firts time I ran Amanda ; your /tmp is not writable by the user Amanda is running as. Amanda needs to build an amanda dir inside /tmp - check the perms you might find that /tmp has limited access. cheers

Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-01-29 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:05:19AM +1100, Tim Tuck wrote: Hi Don, I've been following this discussion and you might have what my Solaris boxs did firts time I ran Amanda ; your /tmp is not writable by the user Amanda is running as. Amanda needs to build an amanda dir inside /tmp - check

Re: Selfcheck request timed out, host down problem?

2002-01-09 Thread David T. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, again James thanks for your help. Well, The server and the client are in the same machine (wendy), by the moment. When I execute #su amanda -c /software/amanda/libexec/amandad, the amadad.xxx.debug is This is probably because you also have amandad being

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