Re: "selfcheck request timed out" problem !!

2007-11-18 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
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> What do you suggest?

Take a look at the wiki and check possible problems/solutions:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Selfcheck_request_failed



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Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread up
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Frank Smith wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Frank Smith wrote:
> >
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>> Replying to my own post (sorry, but I'm getting desperate here), I took
> >>> the advice of the FAQ-O-Matic and installed lsof and ran this command:
> >>>
> >>> su-2.05b# lsof -uamanda
> >>>
> >>> There was no output.  Should there have been?  Does this mean that amandad
> >>> is not running?
> >> No, amandad should not be running except during a backup.  When the server
> >> connects to the amanda port on the client inetd starts amandad.
> >>
> >>> This is what I have in my /etc/inetd.conf:
> >>>
> >>> amanda   dgram  udp  wait  amanda /usr/local/libexec/amandad  amandad
> >>>
> >>> inetd.conf has beek killed and restarted, the client even
> >>> rebooted...anything?
> >> Have you tried running /usr/local/libexec/amandad from the command line
> >> on the client (it should just sit there and eventually time out and
> >> return your prompt, or immediately exit if you hit a key)?  Perhaps
> >> you're missing a library (or need to run ldconfig or whatever is
> >> needed to update the dynamic library cache on your platform).
> >> Does the system log inetd even running amandad?
> >> Does amandad run and create anything in /tmp/amanda?
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.  I did run it from the command line and it
> > eventually times out, although it does not exit immediately if I type
> > something.
>
> 2.4.5 will exit if you hit enter, 2.5 doesn't.

The client is 2.5.0p2, the server is 2.4.5.  Could that be an issue?  If
so, which one do you recommend?

>  debug files are created in /tmp/amanda, but not with any
> > useful info...just how it was compiled.  There is absolutely nothing in
> > /var/log/messages about amanda(d).
>
> Inetd doesn't normally log unless you start it with a debug option.
> In your case, since  a debug file is created then inetd is working
> so you may not need to check further on that.
> Post the debug file on the client and maybe we can see at what stage
> of the connection it stops.  Are you running a firewall on or between
> the client?

No firewall that I've configured...I did just hook up via comcast business
though...nmap from the client back to the server looks ok...I can ssh
back, as well.

the debug files had what looked like nothing but a config.log, until I
just looked now and noticed this huge (48MB) debug file with 670 thousand
lines of this:

amandad: dgram_recv: recvfrom() failed: Socket operation on non-socket
amandad: dgram_recv: recvfrom() failed: Socket operation on non-socket
amandad: dgram_recv: recvfrom() failed: Socket operation on non-socket

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Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread Frank Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Frank Smith wrote:
> 
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> Replying to my own post (sorry, but I'm getting desperate here), I took
>>> the advice of the FAQ-O-Matic and installed lsof and ran this command:
>>>
>>> su-2.05b# lsof -uamanda
>>>
>>> There was no output.  Should there have been?  Does this mean that amandad
>>> is not running?
>> No, amandad should not be running except during a backup.  When the server
>> connects to the amanda port on the client inetd starts amandad.
>>
>>> This is what I have in my /etc/inetd.conf:
>>>
>>> amanda   dgram  udp  wait  amanda /usr/local/libexec/amandad  amandad
>>>
>>> inetd.conf has beek killed and restarted, the client even
>>> rebooted...anything?
>> Have you tried running /usr/local/libexec/amandad from the command line
>> on the client (it should just sit there and eventually time out and
>> return your prompt, or immediately exit if you hit a key)?  Perhaps
>> you're missing a library (or need to run ldconfig or whatever is
>> needed to update the dynamic library cache on your platform).
>> Does the system log inetd even running amandad?
>> Does amandad run and create anything in /tmp/amanda?
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  I did run it from the command line and it
> eventually times out, although it does not exit immediately if I type
> something.

2.4.5 will exit if you hit enter, 2.5 doesn't.

 debug files are created in /tmp/amanda, but not with any
> useful info...just how it was compiled.  There is absolutely nothing in
> /var/log/messages about amanda(d).

Inetd doesn't normally log unless you start it with a debug option.
In your case, since  a debug file is created then inetd is working
so you may not need to check further on that.
Post the debug file on the client and maybe we can see at what stage
of the connection it stops.  Are you running a firewall on or between
the client?

> I thought ldconfig was run upon
> boot...in any case, if I'm missing some kind of lib, wouldn't amanda
> complain about it when trying to build it?

The ldconfig suggestion is only relevant if running amandad from the
command line returns a missing library error, sorry I wasn't clear
about that.  And yes it would complain on build, I was thinking more
of cases where amanda lives on a shared filesystem or are copied to
multiple machines.

Frank

> 
> Thanks again for any help...
> 
> James Smallacombe   PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> http://3.am
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> 


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Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread up
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Frank Smith wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Replying to my own post (sorry, but I'm getting desperate here), I took
> > the advice of the FAQ-O-Matic and installed lsof and ran this command:
> >
> > su-2.05b# lsof -uamanda
> >
> > There was no output.  Should there have been?  Does this mean that amandad
> > is not running?
>
> No, amandad should not be running except during a backup.  When the server
> connects to the amanda port on the client inetd starts amandad.
>
> > This is what I have in my /etc/inetd.conf:
> >
> > amanda   dgram  udp  wait  amanda /usr/local/libexec/amandad  amandad
> >
> > inetd.conf has beek killed and restarted, the client even
> > rebooted...anything?
>
> Have you tried running /usr/local/libexec/amandad from the command line
> on the client (it should just sit there and eventually time out and
> return your prompt, or immediately exit if you hit a key)?  Perhaps
> you're missing a library (or need to run ldconfig or whatever is
> needed to update the dynamic library cache on your platform).
> Does the system log inetd even running amandad?
> Does amandad run and create anything in /tmp/amanda?

Thanks for your reply.  I did run it from the command line and it
eventually times out, although it does not exit immediately if I type
something.  debug files are created in /tmp/amanda, but not with any
useful info...just how it was compiled.  There is absolutely nothing in
/var/log/messages about amanda(d).  I thought ldconfig was run upon
boot...in any case, if I'm missing some kind of lib, wouldn't amanda
complain about it when trying to build it?

Thanks again for any help...

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RE: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread donald.ritchey
The command you should run is:
lsof -I :amanda

Which should show the inetd/xinetd process listening on the amanda port
(UDP port 10080).  The output should look something like this:

ritcdx> lsof -i :amanda
COMMAND PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
inetd   1285913 root   28u  IPv4 0x5fe888c0  0t0  UDP *:amanda

Unless you are very lucky during your testing, this is probably all you
will ever see on the port except when Amanda is actually performing a
backup.

Best wishes,

Donald L. (Don) Ritchey
Information Technology, Exelon Corporation

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Subject: Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client
only



Replying to my own post (sorry, but I'm getting desperate here), I took
the advice of the FAQ-O-Matic and installed lsof and ran this command:

su-2.05b# lsof -uamanda

There was no output.  Should there have been?  Does this mean that
amandad
is not running?  This is what I have in my /etc/inetd.conf:

amanda   dgram  udp  wait  amanda /usr/local/libexec/amandad  amandad

inetd.conf has beek killed and restarted, the client even
rebooted...anything?

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Toomas Aas wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > The server is reporting that client down, so I checked and noticed
that
> > > the FBSD port for the amanda-client did not install amindexd or
> > > amidxtaped, although it did install amandad.  Are all 3 needed for
a
> > > client?
> >
> > No, for client only amandad is needed.
>
> Then I cannot figure out why I'm getting "selfcheck request timed out"
> from that client.  The path in inetd.conf is correct, as is the user
> (amanda) and /tmp/amanda is owned by amanda and has debug files there
> (just config info).  .amandaclients has localhost.fqdn as well as
> hostname.fqdn.  That client IS running alot of IP addresses on it, but
> I've done that before with no trouble.
>
> Here is amcheck -c output:
>
> su-2.05b$ amcheck -c weekly
>
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> 
> ERROR: old.amanda.client: [host someIP.comcastbiz.net: hostname lookup
> failed]
> WARNING: new.amanda.client: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> Client check: 2 hosts checked in 30.153 seconds, 2 problems found
>
> I understand the first error from the old client...there is no forward
DNS
> on that IP (BTW, is there a way around that?  Just have it look at IP
> address?).  I can't figure out the cause of the second one...I went
> through everything on the FAQ-O-Matic about it...
>
> James Smallacombe   PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>

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Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread Frank Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Replying to my own post (sorry, but I'm getting desperate here), I took
> the advice of the FAQ-O-Matic and installed lsof and ran this command:
> 
> su-2.05b# lsof -uamanda
> 
> There was no output.  Should there have been?  Does this mean that amandad
> is not running?  

No, amandad should not be running except during a backup.  When the server
connects to the amanda port on the client inetd starts amandad.

> This is what I have in my /etc/inetd.conf:
> 
> amanda   dgram  udp  wait  amanda /usr/local/libexec/amandad  amandad
> 
> inetd.conf has beek killed and restarted, the client even
> rebooted...anything?

Have you tried running /usr/local/libexec/amandad from the command line
on the client (it should just sit there and eventually time out and
return your prompt, or immediately exit if you hit a key)?  Perhaps
you're missing a library (or need to run ldconfig or whatever is
needed to update the dynamic library cache on your platform).
Does the system log inetd even running amandad?
Does amandad run and create anything in /tmp/amanda?

Frank

> 
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Toomas Aas wrote:
>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>
 The server is reporting that client down, so I checked and noticed that
 the FBSD port for the amanda-client did not install amindexd or
 amidxtaped, although it did install amandad.  Are all 3 needed for a
 client?
>>> No, for client only amandad is needed.
>> Then I cannot figure out why I'm getting "selfcheck request timed out"
>> from that client.  The path in inetd.conf is correct, as is the user
>> (amanda) and /tmp/amanda is owned by amanda and has debug files there
>> (just config info).  .amandaclients has localhost.fqdn as well as
>> hostname.fqdn.  That client IS running alot of IP addresses on it, but
>> I've done that before with no trouble.
>>
>> Here is amcheck -c output:
>>
>> su-2.05b$ amcheck -c weekly
>>
>> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>> 
>> ERROR: old.amanda.client: [host someIP.comcastbiz.net: hostname lookup
>> failed]
>> WARNING: new.amanda.client: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
>> Client check: 2 hosts checked in 30.153 seconds, 2 problems found
>>
>> I understand the first error from the old client...there is no forward DNS
>> on that IP (BTW, is there a way around that?  Just have it look at IP
>> address?).  I can't figure out the cause of the second one...I went
>> through everything on the FAQ-O-Matic about it...
>>
>> James Smallacombe  PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> http://3.am
>> =
>>
>>
> 
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Re: "selfcheck request timed out" WAS Re: Running amanda client only

2006-09-13 Thread up

Replying to my own post (sorry, but I'm getting desperate here), I took
the advice of the FAQ-O-Matic and installed lsof and ran this command:

su-2.05b# lsof -uamanda

There was no output.  Should there have been?  Does this mean that amandad
is not running?  This is what I have in my /etc/inetd.conf:

amanda   dgram  udp  wait  amanda /usr/local/libexec/amandad  amandad

inetd.conf has beek killed and restarted, the client even
rebooted...anything?

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Toomas Aas wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > The server is reporting that client down, so I checked and noticed that
> > > the FBSD port for the amanda-client did not install amindexd or
> > > amidxtaped, although it did install amandad.  Are all 3 needed for a
> > > client?
> >
> > No, for client only amandad is needed.
>
> Then I cannot figure out why I'm getting "selfcheck request timed out"
> from that client.  The path in inetd.conf is correct, as is the user
> (amanda) and /tmp/amanda is owned by amanda and has debug files there
> (just config info).  .amandaclients has localhost.fqdn as well as
> hostname.fqdn.  That client IS running alot of IP addresses on it, but
> I've done that before with no trouble.
>
> Here is amcheck -c output:
>
> su-2.05b$ amcheck -c weekly
>
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> 
> ERROR: old.amanda.client: [host someIP.comcastbiz.net: hostname lookup
> failed]
> WARNING: new.amanda.client: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> Client check: 2 hosts checked in 30.153 seconds, 2 problems found
>
> I understand the first error from the old client...there is no forward DNS
> on that IP (BTW, is there a way around that?  Just have it look at IP
> address?).  I can't figure out the cause of the second one...I went
> through everything on the FAQ-O-Matic about it...
>
> James Smallacombe   PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> http://3.am
> =
>
>

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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 ubuntu apparently isn't using 
either, virtually everything is controlled from /etc/init.d in a kubuntu 
install I just did on my cnc machine.  On that box the only line in 
inetd.conf starts with disabled, and only 4 files live in 
the /etc/xinetd.d directory.

identd could have some bearing on it I suppose, but having an identd, given 
that its used rather extensively as a verfication mechanism by using it as 
proof there is a machine at that address even if the port response 
indicates its closed is pretty universal.  Here, I've got a pretty tight 
router and firewall setup, and the only response from my outside address 
when being scanned with nmap, is from a closed identd port thats actually 
located in the router.  If I actually shut that response off, then I can't 
access half the web sites on the net.

I think I'd start an identd daemon just for effects on that machine.  It 
might not help, but it might not hurt either.

[...]

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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


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To: [email protected]
Subject: Re:

On Sunday 13 August 2006 23:20, Lengyel, Florian wrote:
>Identical, except for identd on one client (the client that
>doesn't work doesn't have identd).

Permissions and all?  In some cases thats all important.

OTOH, the client that doesn't have inetd SHOULD have xinetd, and a
directory of control files in /etc/xinetd.d, and the one for the amanda
daemons should look something like this, noting that this file can be
named anything because its the contents that count:
=
# default = off
#
# description: Part of the Amanda server package
# This is the list of daemons & such it needs
service amanda
{
 disable = no
 socket_type = dgram
 protocol = udp
 wait  = yes
 user  = amanda
 group  = disk
 groups  = yes
 server  = /usr/local/libexec/amandad
}
service amandaidx
{
 disable = no
    socket_type = stream
    protocol    = tcp
    wait    = no
    user    = amanda
    group   = disk
    groups  = yes
    server  = /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
}
service amidxtape
{
 disable = no
    socket_type = stream
    protocol    = tcp
    wait    = no
    user    = amanda
    group   = disk
    groups  = yes
    server  = /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
}
==
Those paths are as installed by the tarball build, rpms will probably not
have the 'local' in the path.  The user is whoever will be the one to
invoke amdump etc.  The 'group' must have write perms to the disks.

If you edit this file, then do a 'service xinetd restart' from the command
line as root to make the edits effective w/o a reboot.

I hope this helps.

>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gene Heskett
>Sent: Sun 8/13/2006 7:06 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re:
>
>On Sunday 13 August 2006 18:07, Lengyel, Florian wrote:
>>I'm using Amanda 2.4.4p3 on a Debian system (stable release)
>>I have one client that times out during the self-check--I'm mystified.
>>What do I do to debug this? There are no firewalls--everything is
>>on the same subnet.
>>
>>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ amcheck Daily
>>Amanda Tape Server Host Check
>>-
>>WARNING: holding disk /var/tmp/amanda: only 9477560 KB free (10485760 KB
>> requested) amcheck-server: slot 2: date 20060713 label Daily002 (exact
>> label match) NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
>>Tape Daily002 label ok
>>Server check took 34.036 seconds
>>
>>Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
>>
>>WARNING: rt: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
>>Client check: 8 hosts checked in 30.485 seconds, 1 problem found
>>
>>(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p3)
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
>
>Double check the install on the client, everything.  Compare to identical
>files on another client, or even the server.

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Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Paul Bijnens

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

Leonid Shulov schrieb:


ERROR: /dev/nst0: Permission denied
  (expecting tape DailySet106 or a new tape)

Get that permission right ...


Its happens when cartridge is not in tape.



I get "Input/output error" then, but OK.



When you get a "Permission denied" instead of "Input/output error",
then maybe the error for "create directory /var/log/amanda: Permission 
denied" is also bogus, and actually means "success"? :-)


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Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger

Leonid Shulov schrieb:


ERROR: /dev/nst0: Permission denied
  (expecting tape DailySet106 or a new tape)

Get that permission right ...


Its happens when cartridge is not in tape.



I get "Input/output error" then, but OK.

Stefan


Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Leonid Shulov

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:


asraid01:/etc/amanda# sudo -u amanda amcheck DailySetE
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /home/amanda/tmp: 173619800 kB disk space available, 
using 152648280 kB

ERROR: /dev/nst0: Permission denied
  (expecting tape DailySet106 or a new tape)



Get that permission right ...


Its happens when cartridge is not in tape.

Leonid


Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger

Leonid Shulov schrieb:

I don't way, but sudenly amanda with Suse work perfectly:


Often it is enough to enter the room ;-)


asraid01:/etc/amanda# sudo -u amanda amcheck DailySetE
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /home/amanda/tmp: 173619800 kB disk space available, using 
152648280 kB

ERROR: /dev/nst0: Permission denied
  (expecting tape DailySet106 or a new tape)


Get that permission right ...


NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Server check took 0.001 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

Client check: 1 host checked in 0.245 seconds, 0 problems found

Thanks to Stefan G. Weichinger and  Paul Bijnens


Greets, Stefan.




Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Leonid Shulov

I don't way, but sudenly amanda with Suse work perfectly:

asraid01:/etc/amanda# sudo -u amanda amcheck DailySetE
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /home/amanda/tmp: 173619800 kB disk space available, using 
152648280 kB

ERROR: /dev/nst0: Permission denied
  (expecting tape DailySet106 or a new tape)
NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
Server check took 0.001 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

Client check: 1 host checked in 0.245 seconds, 0 problems found

Thanks to Stefan G. Weichinger and  Paul Bijnens

Leonid


Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Paul Bijnens


As usual, a followup on myself :-)


Paul Bijnens wrote:

Leonid Shulov wrote:

I fogot logs files:
/tmp/amanda:
-rw---1 amanda disk  2284 Jan 24 10:11 
amandad.20060124101041.debug

...

amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.994: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.995: pid 3201 finish time Tue Jan 24 10:11:11 2006

*/var/log/messages:
Jan 24 16:35:59 ellas amandad[13633]: error receiving message: timeout
Jan 24 16:59:53 ellas xinetd[6618]: Exiting...


This is strange:  xinetd invokes amandad because there is some traffic
received on port 10080/udp.  But when amandad tries to receive a dgram,
it receives nothing, and thus times out after 30 seconds.
Very strange...


But this log file dates from yesterday.  What that the logfile
that is created when you started amandad manually. Then yes
indeed, it should time out after 30 seconds. Perfect.

Note that the timestamps in /var/log/messages are 6 hours later :-)

Please try to simulate one problem at a time.

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Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Paul Bijnens

Leonid Shulov wrote:

I fogot logs files:
/tmp/amanda:
-rw---1 amanda disk  2284 Jan 24 10:11 amandad.20060124101041.debug

amandad.20060124101041.debug:
amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.4p3"
amandad:BUILT_DATE="Tue Mar 22 19:23:34 UTC 2005"
amandad:BUILT_MACH="Linux c001n13 2.6.9 #1 Thu Jan 27 09:19:29 
UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux"

amandad:CC="gcc"
amandad:CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure' 
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--prefix=/usr' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
'--sysconfdir=/etc' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda' 
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--with-index-server=localhost' 
'--with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists' 
'--with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient' '--with-amandahosts' 
'--with-user=amanda' '--with-group=disk' '--with-gnutar=/bin/tar' 
'--disable-libtool' '--disable-shared' '--disable-static'"

amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/bin" sbindir="/usr/sbin"
amandad:libexecdir="/usr/lib/amanda" mandir="/usr/share/man"
amandad:AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda" AMANDA_DBGDIR="/tmp/amanda"
amandad:CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda" DEV_PREFIX="/dev/"
amandad:RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump"
amandad:RESTORE="/sbin/restore" VDUMP=UNDEF VRESTORE=UNDEF
amandad:XFSDUMP=UNDEF XFSRESTORE=UNDEF VXDUMP=UNDEF VXRESTORE=UNDEF
amandad:SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient" GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
amandad:COMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip"
amandad:UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip" LPRCMD="/usr/bin/lpr"
amandad:MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"
amandad:listed_incr_dir="/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists"
amandad: defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="localhost" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
amandad:DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="localhost"
amandad:DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM
amandad:LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE
amandad:AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY USE_AMANDAHOSTS
amandad:CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
amandad:COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
amandad:COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
*amandad: time 29.994: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.994: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.995: pid 3201 finish time Tue Jan 24 10:11:11 2006

*/var/log/messages:
Jan 24 16:35:59 ellas amandad[13633]: error receiving message: timeout
Jan 24 16:59:53 ellas xinetd[6618]: Exiting...


This is strange:  xinetd invokes amandad because there is some traffic
received on port 10080/udp.  But when amandad tries to receive a dgram,
it receives nothing, and thus times out after 30 seconds.
Very strange...

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Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Leonid Shulov

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:


Leonid Shulov schrieb:


/erc/passwd:
amanda:x:37:6:Amanda admin:/var/lib/amanda:/bin/bash



It is my error in E-mail



I assume it's /etc not /erc


/var/lib/amanda:
-rw-r--r--   1 amanda disk   28 Jan 19 15:02 .amandahosts
-rw-r--r--   1 amanda disk   21 Jan  5  2001 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--   1 amanda disk   10 Jan  5  2001 .profile
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Mar 22  2005 DailySet1
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Mar 22  2005 disklist
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Mar 22  2005 gnutar-lists
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Mar 22  2005 index
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Jan 19 14:55 lbl-templ



So you use /var/lib/amanda both as ~amanda and config-dir?
This looks like a AMANDA-server, I assumed it was one client of your 
installation. Is this planned as a singlehost-installation?


Any particular reasons to NOT use the default directories?

I don't compiled from source, I installed amanda from SuSe 9.3 amanda 
package



/var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts:
asraid01.localdomain amanda
#asraid01.localdomain - amanda server

/usr/lib/amanda:
-rwxr-xr-x1 root   disk  44204 Mar 22  2005 amandad



Mine is

-rwxr-xr-x  1 amanda disk 36K Jan 20 12:52 /usr/local/libexec/amandad*

You have followed the rule : configure and make as amanda-user, 
install as root?


If not, do a "make uninstall" as root, make clean, reconfigure and 
make as amanda, make install as root.


This is VERY important to get all the permissions right.

---

Although: I have seen the configuration, but I still don't know about 
THE PROBLEM ...


Leonid


Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Leonid Shulov




I fogot logs files:
/tmp/amanda:
-rw---    1 amanda disk  2284 Jan 24 10:11
amandad.20060124101041.debug

amandad.20060124101041.debug:
amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.4p3"
amandad:    BUILT_DATE="Tue Mar 22 19:23:34 UTC 2005"
amandad:    BUILT_MACH="Linux c001n13 2.6.9 #1 Thu Jan 27 09:19:29
UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux"
amandad:    CC="gcc"
amandad:    CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure'
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--prefix=/usr' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
'--sysconfdir=/etc' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda'
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--with-index-server=localhost'
'--with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists'
'--with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient' '--with-amandahosts'
'--with-user=amanda' '--with-group=disk' '--with-gnutar=/bin/tar'
'--disable-libtool' '--disable-shared' '--disable-static'"
amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/bin" sbindir="/usr/sbin"
amandad:    libexecdir="/usr/lib/amanda" mandir="/usr/share/man"
amandad:    AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda" AMANDA_DBGDIR="/tmp/amanda"
amandad:    CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda" DEV_PREFIX="/dev/"
amandad:    RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump"
amandad:    RESTORE="/sbin/restore" VDUMP=UNDEF VRESTORE=UNDEF
amandad:    XFSDUMP=UNDEF XFSRESTORE=UNDEF VXDUMP=UNDEF
VXRESTORE=UNDEF
amandad:    SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient" GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
amandad:    COMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip"
amandad:    UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip" LPRCMD="/usr/bin/lpr"
amandad:    MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"
amandad:    listed_incr_dir="/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists"
amandad: defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="localhost" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
amandad:    DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="localhost"
amandad:    DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM
amandad:    LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE
amandad:    AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY USE_AMANDAHOSTS
amandad:    CLIENT_LOGIN="amanda" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
amandad:    COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
amandad:    COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
amandad: time 29.994: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.994: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.995: pid 3201 finish time Tue Jan 24 10:11:11 2006

/var/log/messages:
Jan 24 16:35:59 ellas amandad[13633]: error receiving message: timeout
Jan 24 16:59:53 ellas xinetd[6618]: Exiting...







Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger

Leonid Shulov schrieb:


/erc/passwd:
amanda:x:37:6:Amanda admin:/var/lib/amanda:/bin/bash


I assume it's /etc not /erc


/var/lib/amanda:
-rw-r--r--   1 amanda disk   28 Jan 19 15:02 .amandahosts
-rw-r--r--   1 amanda disk   21 Jan  5  2001 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--   1 amanda disk   10 Jan  5  2001 .profile
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Mar 22  2005 DailySet1
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Mar 22  2005 disklist
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Mar 22  2005 gnutar-lists
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Mar 22  2005 index
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Jan 19 14:55 lbl-templ


So you use /var/lib/amanda both as ~amanda and config-dir?
This looks like a AMANDA-server, I assumed it was one client of your 
installation. Is this planned as a singlehost-installation?


Any particular reasons to NOT use the default directories?


/var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts:
asraid01.localdomain amanda
#asraid01.localdomain - amanda server

/usr/lib/amanda:
-rwxr-xr-x1 root   disk  44204 Mar 22  2005 amandad


Mine is

-rwxr-xr-x  1 amanda disk 36K Jan 20 12:52 /usr/local/libexec/amandad*

You have followed the rule : configure and make as amanda-user, install 
as root?


If not, do a "make uninstall" as root, make clean, reconfigure and make 
as amanda, make install as root.


This is VERY important to get all the permissions right.

---

Although: I have seen the configuration, but I still don't know about 
THE PROBLEM ...


Stefan




Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Leonid Shulov

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:


Leonid Shulov schrieb:


I found solution for 2 Debian PC's(clients), I changed  inetd.conf:
#amanda   dgram  udp wait   backup /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/lib/amanda/amandad

amandadgram  udp wait   backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandadamandad

But for _*Suse*_ PC until found any thing.



Show configs and logs for the Suse again. I have many Suse-clients so 
we should find that ...


Stefan 


/tmp
drwxrwxrwt  494 root   root  16384 Jan 25 13:45 tmp
/tmp/amanda
drwx--S---2 amanda disk   4096 Jan 24 16:35 amanda

/etc/services:
amanda  10080/tcp   # amanda backup services
amanda  10080/udp
amandaidx   10082/tcp   # amanda backup services
amidxtape   10083/tcp   # amanda backup services

/etc/xinetd.d/amanda:
# default: off
# description: Amanda backup client
#
service amanda
{
   socket_type = dgram
   protocol= udp
   wait= yes
   user= amanda
   group   = disk
   server  = /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
   disable = no
}

/erc/passwd:
amanda:x:37:6:Amanda admin:/var/lib/amanda:/bin/bash

/etc/group:
disk:*:6:

/var/lib/amanda:
-rw-r--r--   1 amanda disk   28 Jan 19 15:02 .amandahosts
-rw-r--r--   1 amanda disk   21 Jan  5  2001 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--   1 amanda disk   10 Jan  5  2001 .profile
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Mar 22  2005 DailySet1
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Mar 22  2005 disklist
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Mar 22  2005 gnutar-lists
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Mar 22  2005 index
drwxr-xr-x   2 amanda disk 4096 Jan 19 14:55 lbl-templ

/var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts:
asraid01.localdomain amanda
#asraid01.localdomain - amanda server

/usr/lib/amanda:
-rwxr-xr-x1 root   disk  44204 Mar 22  2005 amandad
-rw-r--r--1 amanda disk139 Mar 22  2005 amcat.awk
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 109640 Mar 22  2005 amcleanupdisk
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk  94540 Mar 22  2005 amidxtaped
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 131748 Mar 22  2005 amindexd
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk  48896 Mar 22  2005 amlogroll
-rw-r--r--1 amanda disk  17439 Mar 22  2005 amplot.awk
-rw-r--r--1 amanda disk   3283 Mar 22  2005 amplot.g
-rw-r--r--1 amanda disk   3293 Mar 22  2005 amplot.gp
-rwxr-x---1 root   disk  19520 Mar 22  2005 amqde
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 115536 Mar 22  2005 amtrmidx
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 114992 Mar 22  2005 amtrmlog
-rwsr-x---1 root   disk  23212 Mar 22  2005 calcsize
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk  11178 Mar 22  2005 chg-chio
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk  10042 Mar 22  2005 chg-chs
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk   5885 Mar 22  2005 chg-disk
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk   7211 Mar 22  2005 chg-iomega
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk   5128 Mar 22  2005 chg-juke
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk   6752 Mar 22  2005 chg-manual
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk  13074 Mar 22  2005 chg-mcutil
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk   5572 Mar 22  2005 chg-mtx
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk  11938 Mar 22  2005 chg-multi
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk   1688 Mar 22  2005 chg-null
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk   3964 Mar 22  2005 chg-rait
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk   6677 Mar 22  2005 chg-rth
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 207356 Mar 22  2005 chg-scsi
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk  38002 Mar 22  2005 chg-zd-mtx
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 143000 Mar 22  2005 driver
-rwsr-x---1 root   disk 146848 Mar 22  2005 dumper
-rwsr-x---1 root   disk  19980 Mar 22  2005 killpgrp
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk   4810 Mar 22  2005 patch-system
-rwsr-x---1 root   disk 148308 Mar 22  2005 planner
-rwsr-x---1 root   disk  19036 Mar 22  2005 rundump
-rwsr-x---1 root   disk  19184 Mar 22  2005 runtar
-rwxr-xr-x1 root   root  78416 Mar 22  2005 selfcheck
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk  97692 Mar 22  2005 sendbackup
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk  90972 Mar 22  2005 sendsize
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk184 Mar 22  2005 suidlist
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk 147144 Mar 22  2005 taper
-rwxr-xr-x1 amanda disk  19044 Mar 22  2005 versionsuffix

What else ?

Leonid




Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger

Leonid Shulov schrieb:


I found solution for 2 Debian PC's(clients), I changed  inetd.conf:
#amanda   dgram  udp wait   backup /usr/sbin/tcpd/usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandadgram  udp wait   backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandadamandad

But for _*Suse*_ PC until found any thing.


Show configs and logs for the Suse again. I have many Suse-clients so we 
should find that ...


Stefan


Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-25 Thread Leonid Shulov




Ram "TK" Krishnamurthy wrote:
Did
you install these software on the PC that works as well? The one
  
where you changed your timeout? Was there any change on the network?
  
Firewall configuration changes?
  
  
Of the software installed, only samba seems to have any relevance.
  
  

I found solution for 2 Debian PC's(clients), I changed  inetd.conf:
#amanda   dgram  udp wait   backup /usr/sbin/tcpd   
/usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amanda    dgram  udp wait   backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad    amandad

But for Suse PC until found any thing.


Leonid





Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-24 Thread Ram \"TK\" Krishnamurthy

Did you install these software on the PC that works as well? The one
where you changed your timeout? Was there any change on the network?
Firewall configuration changes?

Of the software installed, only samba seems to have any relevance.


Thanks
tk


Leonid Shulov wrote:

Paul Bijnens wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:


Now I checked another PC and :
Server check took 120.707 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

WARNING: nicks: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
Client check: 1 host checked in 29.998 seconds, 1 problem found




I'm still curious about the results of the executing this command
on the failing clients (not on the server!):

 $ sudo -u backup mkdir -p /var/log/amanda

Do you get an error (which?), or does it succeed (no output)?



With this all is OK and amndad run with this log file in 
/var/log/amanda/amandad.20060124131203.debug:

amandad: time 30.002: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 30.002: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 30.002: pid 24491 finish time Tue Jan 24 13:12:33 2006

Yesterday nigth amanda has made  backup,  after that client  upgraded  
system with packages:

Setting up libusb-0.1-4 (0.1.11-3) ...
Setting up patch (2.5.9-3) ...
Setting up libktnef1 (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up dvd+rw-tools (6.0-1) ...
Setting up enscript (1.6.4-8) ...
Setting up gnome-session (2.12.0-4) ...
Setting up libkleopatra1 (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up kde-style-lipstik (2.1-2) ...
Setting up libbonoboui2-common (2.10.1-2) ...
Setting up libeel2-data (2.12.2-3) ...
Setting up libicu34 (3.4-4) ...
Setting up libmysqlclient12 (4.0.24-10sarge1) ...
Setting up libsmbclient (3.0.21a-3) ...
Setting up libungif4g (4.1.4-2) ...
Setting up pppoeconf (1.9) ...
Setting up realpath (1.9.28) ...
Setting up samba-common (3.0.21a-3) ...
Setting up smbclient (3.0.21a-3) ...
Setting up smbfs (3.0.21a-3) ...
Setting up samba (3.0.21a-3) ...
Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd.

Setting up showimg (0.9.5-1) ...
Setting up ttf-bitstream-vera (1.10-4) ...
Regenerating fonts cache... done.

Setting up libmotif3 (2.2.3-1.3) ...
Setting up libbonoboui2-0 (2.10.1-2) ...
Setting up libeel2-2 (2.12.2-3) ...
Setting up libkdepim1a (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up libkcal2b (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up akregator (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up kaddressbook (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up knotes (3.5.0-5) ...

I dont know how it affect to amanda, but fact, after that it finished 
work with this PC.



Leonid


--


Ram "TK" Krishnamurthy

http://www.zmanda.com



Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-24 Thread Leonid Shulov

Paul Bijnens wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:


Now I checked another PC and :
Server check took 120.707 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

WARNING: nicks: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
Client check: 1 host checked in 29.998 seconds, 1 problem found



I'm still curious about the results of the executing this command
on the failing clients (not on the server!):

 $ sudo -u backup mkdir -p /var/log/amanda

Do you get an error (which?), or does it succeed (no output)?


With this all is OK and amndad run with this log file in 
/var/log/amanda/amandad.20060124131203.debug:

amandad: time 30.002: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 30.002: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 30.002: pid 24491 finish time Tue Jan 24 13:12:33 2006

Yesterday nigth amanda has made  backup,  after that client  upgraded  
system with packages:

Setting up libusb-0.1-4 (0.1.11-3) ...
Setting up patch (2.5.9-3) ...
Setting up libktnef1 (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up dvd+rw-tools (6.0-1) ...
Setting up enscript (1.6.4-8) ...
Setting up gnome-session (2.12.0-4) ...
Setting up libkleopatra1 (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up kde-style-lipstik (2.1-2) ...
Setting up libbonoboui2-common (2.10.1-2) ...
Setting up libeel2-data (2.12.2-3) ...
Setting up libicu34 (3.4-4) ...
Setting up libmysqlclient12 (4.0.24-10sarge1) ...
Setting up libsmbclient (3.0.21a-3) ...
Setting up libungif4g (4.1.4-2) ...
Setting up pppoeconf (1.9) ...
Setting up realpath (1.9.28) ...
Setting up samba-common (3.0.21a-3) ...
Setting up smbclient (3.0.21a-3) ...
Setting up smbfs (3.0.21a-3) ...
Setting up samba (3.0.21a-3) ...
Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd.

Setting up showimg (0.9.5-1) ...
Setting up ttf-bitstream-vera (1.10-4) ...
Regenerating fonts cache... done.

Setting up libmotif3 (2.2.3-1.3) ...
Setting up libbonoboui2-0 (2.10.1-2) ...
Setting up libeel2-2 (2.12.2-3) ...
Setting up libkdepim1a (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up libkcal2b (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up akregator (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up kaddressbook (3.5.0-5) ...
Setting up knotes (3.5.0-5) ...

I dont know how it affect to amanda, but fact, after that it finished 
work with this PC.



Leonid


Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-24 Thread Paul Bijnens

Leonid Shulov wrote:

Now I checked another PC and :
Server check took 120.707 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

WARNING: nicks: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
Client check: 1 host checked in 29.998 seconds, 1 problem found


I'm still curious about the results of the executing this command
on the failing clients (not on the server!):

 $ sudo -u backup mkdir -p /var/log/amanda

Do you get an error (which?), or does it succeed (no output)?



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Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-24 Thread Leonid Shulov

Paul Bijnens wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:

I changed etimeout from 300 to 600 and after than amanda work.



Good for you.
But I do not understand how changing the timeout helps in this case...


I are right, its help me only on 1 PC and I thought that all right.

Now I checked another PC and :
Server check took 120.707 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

WARNING: nicks: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
Client check: 1 host checked in 29.998 seconds, 1 problem found





Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-24 Thread Paul Bijnens

Leonid Shulov wrote:

Leonid Shulov wrote:



Now (24.01.2005) I have 3 PC with same problem, 2 - Debian, 1 - SuSe 
- amanda timed down:


amandad: time 29.994: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.994: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.995: pid 3201 finish time Tue Jan 24 10:11:11 2006



In all my amanda.conf I wrote:
etimeout 300# number of seconds per filesystem for estimates.


I changed etimeout from 300 to 600 and after than amanda work.


Good for you.
But I do not understand how changing the timeout helps in this case...
  :-)


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Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-24 Thread Leonid Shulov

Leonid Shulov wrote:



Now (24.01.2005) I have 3 PC with same problem, 2 - Debian, 1 - SuSe 
- amanda timed down:


amandad: time 29.994: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.994: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.995: pid 3201 finish time Tue Jan 24 10:11:11 2006



In all my amanda.conf I wrote:
etimeout 300# number of seconds per filesystem for estimates.


I changed etimeout from 300 to 600 and after than amanda work.


Thanks to Paul Bijnens for help and time for me.

Leonid




Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-24 Thread Leonid Shulov


Now (24.01.2005) I have 3 PC with same problem, 2 - Debian, 1 - SuSe - 
amanda timed down:


amandad: time 29.994: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.994: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.995: pid 3201 finish time Tue Jan 24 10:11:11 2006


In all my amanda.conf I wrote:
etimeout 300# number of seconds per filesystem for estimates.

Every day I amdump 15 servers and PC's

Leonid




Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-24 Thread Leonid Shulov

Paul Bijnens wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:



Now /var/log/amanda:
drwx--S---  2 backup backup1024 2006-01-23 12:50 amanda/



It is still confusing what you write:  Is that the contents of
/var/log/amanda or the directory itself?
I.e is there a directory /var/log/amanda/amanda that has those
permissions? or is it /var/log/amanda itself?



but:
astp0002:/var/log# sudo -u backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad: create debug directory "/var/log/amanda": Permission denied



Or do you have SElinux enabled with some very strict setting?



Now (24.01.2005) I have 3 PC with same problem, 2 - Debian, 1 - SuSe - 
amanda timed down:


amandad: time 29.994: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.994: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 29.995: pid 3201 finish time Tue Jan 24 10:11:11 2006

I attach 2 *.debug files

Leonid

amandad: debug 1 pid 25096 ruid 34 euid 34: start at Tue Jan 24 10:08:25 2006
amandad: version 2.4.5p1
amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.5p1"
amandad:BUILT_DATE="Thu Dec 29 11:59:13 MST 2005"
amandad:BUILT_MACH="Linux rover 2.6.12-9-686 #1 Mon Oct 10 13:25:32 BST 
2005 i686 GNU/Linux"
amandad:CC="gcc"
amandad:CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure' '--prefix=/usr' 
'--bindir=/usr/sbin' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda' 
'--enable-shared' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' 
'--with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists' 
'--with-index-server=localhost' '--with-user=backup' '--with-group=backup' 
'--with-bsd-security' '--with-amandahosts' 
'--with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient' '--with-debugging=/var/log/amanda' 
'--with-tcpportrange=5,50100' '--with-udpportrange=840,860'"
amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/sbin" sbindir="/usr/sbin"
amandad:libexecdir="/usr/lib/amanda" mandir="/usr/share/man"
amandad:AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda"
amandad:AMANDA_DBGDIR="/var/log/amanda" CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda"
amandad:DEV_PREFIX="/dev/" RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump"
amandad:RESTORE="/sbin/restore" VDUMP=UNDEF VRESTORE=UNDEF
amandad:XFSDUMP="/sbin/xfsdump" XFSRESTORE="/sbin/xfsrestore"
amandad:VXDUMP=UNDEF VXRESTORE=UNDEF
amandad:SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient" GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
amandad:COMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip" UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/bin/gzip"
amandad:LPRCMD="/usr/bin/lpr" MAILER="/usr/bin/mail"
amandad:listed_incr_dir="/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists"
amandad: defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="localhost" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
amandad:DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="localhost"
amandad:DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM
amandad:LOCKING=POSIX_FCNTL SETPGRP_VOID DEBUG_CODE
amandad:AMANDA_DEBUG_DAYS=4 BSD_SECURITY USE_AMANDAHOSTS
amandad:CLIENT_LOGIN="backup" FORCE_USERID HAVE_GZIP
amandad:COMPRESS_SUFFIX=".gz" COMPRESS_FAST_OPT="--fast"
amandad:COMPRESS_BEST_OPT="--best" UNCOMPRESS_OPT="-dc"
amandad: time 30.009: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 30.010: error receiving message: timeout
amandad: time 30.010: pid 25096 finish time Tue Jan 24 10:08:56 2006
amandad: debug 1 pid 3201 ruid 37 euid 37: start at Tue Jan 24 10:10:41 2006
amandad: version 2.4.4p3
amandad: build: VERSION="Amanda-2.4.4p3"
amandad:BUILT_DATE="Tue Mar 22 19:23:34 UTC 2005"
amandad:BUILT_MACH="Linux c001n13 2.6.9 #1 Thu Jan 27 09:19:29 UTC 2005 
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux"
amandad:CC="gcc"
amandad:CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
'--prefix=/usr' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--sysconfdir=/etc' 
'--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/amanda' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' 
'--with-index-server=localhost' 
'--with-gnutar-listdir=/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists' 
'--with-smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient' '--with-amandahosts' '--with-user=amanda' 
'--with-group=disk' '--with-gnutar=/bin/tar' '--disable-libtool' 
'--disable-shared' '--disable-static'"
amandad: paths: bindir="/usr/bin" sbindir="/usr/sbin"
amandad:libexecdir="/usr/lib/amanda" mandir="/usr/share/man"
amandad:AMANDA_TMPDIR="/tmp/amanda" AMANDA_DBGDIR="/tmp/amanda"
amandad:CONFIG_DIR="/etc/amanda" DEV_PREFIX="/dev/"
amandad:RDEV_PREFIX="/dev/" DUMP="/sbin/dump"
amandad:RESTORE="/sbin/restore" VDUMP=UNDEF VRESTORE=UNDEF
amandad:XFSDUMP=UNDEF XFSRESTORE=UNDEF VXDUMP=UNDEF VXRESTORE=UNDEF
amandad:SAMBA_CLIENT="/usr/bin/smbclient" GNUTAR="/bin/tar"
amandad:COMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip"
amandad:UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip" LPRCMD="/usr/bin/lpr"
amandad:MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"
amandad:listed_incr_dir="/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists"
amandad: defs:  DEFAULT_SERVER="localhost" DEFAULT_CONFIG="DailySet1"
amandad:DEFAULT_TAPE_SERVER="localhost"
amandad:DEFAULT_TAPE_DEVICE="/dev/null" HAVE_MMAP HAVE_SYSVSHM
amanda

Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-24 Thread Paul Bijnens

Leonid Shulov wrote:

but:
astp0002:/var/log# sudo -u backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad: create debug directory "/var/log/amanda": Permission denied


What happens if you type:

sudo -u backup mkdir -p /var/log/amanda

Do you an error, or does it succeed silently?



Or do you have SElinux enabled with some very strict setting?


No, simple Debian Linux with kernel 2.6.15-1-686


I'm  not that familiar with debian. (SELinux is a configuration not
a packager, just in case.)

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Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-23 Thread Leonid Shulov

Paul Bijnens wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:



Now /var/log/amanda:
drwx--S---  2 backup backup1024 2006-01-23 12:50 amanda/



It is still confusing what you write:  Is that the contents of
/var/log/amanda or the directory itself?
I.e is there a directory /var/log/amanda/amanda that has those
permissions? or is it /var/log/amanda itself?


it is /var/log/amanda





but:
astp0002:/var/log# sudo -u backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad: create debug directory "/var/log/amanda": Permission denied



Or do you have SElinux enabled with some very strict setting?


No, simple Debian Linux with kernel 2.6.15-1-686




Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Bijnens

Leonid Shulov wrote:


Now /var/log/amanda:
drwx--S---  2 backup backup1024 2006-01-23 12:50 amanda/


It is still confusing what you write:  Is that the contents of
/var/log/amanda or the directory itself?
I.e is there a directory /var/log/amanda/amanda that has those
permissions? or is it /var/log/amanda itself?



but:
astp0002:/var/log# sudo -u backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad: create debug directory "/var/log/amanda": Permission denied


Or do you have SElinux enabled with some very strict setting?



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Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-23 Thread Leonid Shulov

Paul Bijnens wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:


Paul Bijnens wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:


Paul Bijnens wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:

Suddenly my amanda stoped backup one of my users PC and I don't 
found why.

amcheck report:
WARNING: astp0002: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?




Did you check all the items in:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcheck:_selfcheck_request_timed_out




Yes.




Apparently you missed the first sentence:
"Locate the AMANDA_DBGDIR directory" :-)

Because /tmp/amanda is not your debug directory.
See below...


Fine!



/tmp
drwx--S---  2 backup backup  1024 2006-01-23 12:53 amanda/





Look in the amandad.DATETIME.debug file inside that directory
for clues.





In /tmp/amanda I don't have any amandad.DATETIME.debug file




any other files?
If there is no such file at all, then it means that amandad isn't
even starting.



No files complitely


When you start as user amanda "/usr/lib/amanda/amandad" manually
from a shell, it should sit there for about 30 seconds and then
time out.  Or do you get any errors about libraries not being found
etc.?



astp0002:/var/log# /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad: create debug directory "/var/log/amanda": Permission denied
astp0002:/var/log# sudo -u backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad: create debug directory "/var/log/amanda": Permission denied

I changed  permission to 777 - but without any changing



OK, so your debug directory seems to be "/var/log/amanda".
Is that a directory?   Or did you create a file instead?
The permissions of the debug directory should not be 777, but 700
or 2700.


Now /var/log/amanda:
drwx--S---  2 backup backup1024 2006-01-23 12:50 amanda/

but:
astp0002:/var/log# sudo -u backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad: create debug directory "/var/log/amanda": Permission denied
and /var/log/syslog:
Jan 23 17:11:12 astp0002 inetd[30734]: /usr/lib/amanda/amandad: exit 
status 0x1

Jan 23 17:11:12 astp0002 last message repeated 38 times
Jan 23 17:11:12 astp0002 inetd[30734]: amanda/udp server failing 
(looping), service terminated





Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Bijnens

Leonid Shulov wrote:

Paul Bijnens wrote:

Leonid Shulov wrote:

Paul Bijnens wrote:

Leonid Shulov wrote:

Suddenly my amanda stoped backup one of my users PC and I don't 
found why.

amcheck report:
WARNING: astp0002: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?



Did you check all the items in:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcheck:_selfcheck_request_timed_out



Yes.


Apparently you missed the first sentence:
"Locate the AMANDA_DBGDIR directory" :-)

Because /tmp/amanda is not your debug directory.
See below...


Fine!



/tmp
drwx--S---  2 backup backup  1024 2006-01-23 12:53 amanda/




Look in the amandad.DATETIME.debug file inside that directory
for clues.




In /tmp/amanda I don't have any amandad.DATETIME.debug file



any other files?
If there is no such file at all, then it means that amandad isn't
even starting.


No files complitely


When you start as user amanda "/usr/lib/amanda/amandad" manually
from a shell, it should sit there for about 30 seconds and then
time out.  Or do you get any errors about libraries not being found
etc.?


astp0002:/var/log# /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad: create debug directory "/var/log/amanda": Permission denied
astp0002:/var/log# sudo -u backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad: create debug directory "/var/log/amanda": Permission denied

I changed  permission to 777 - but without any changing


OK, so your debug directory seems to be "/var/log/amanda".
Is that a directory?   Or did you create a file instead?
The permissions of the debug directory should not be 777, but 700
or 2700.


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Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-23 Thread Leonid Shulov

Paul Bijnens wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:


Paul Bijnens wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:

Suddenly my amanda stoped backup one of my users PC and I don't 
found why.

amcheck report:
WARNING: astp0002: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?




Did you check all the items in:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcheck:_selfcheck_request_timed_out



Yes.



Fine!



/tmp
drwx--S---  2 backup backup  1024 2006-01-23 12:53 amanda/




Look in the amandad.DATETIME.debug file inside that directory
for clues.




In /tmp/amanda I don't have any amandad.DATETIME.debug file



any other files?
If there is no such file at all, then it means that amandad isn't
even starting.


No files complitely


When you start as user amanda "/usr/lib/amanda/amandad" manually
from a shell, it should sit there for about 30 seconds and then
time out.  Or do you get any errors about libraries not being found
etc.?


astp0002:/var/log# /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad: create debug directory "/var/log/amanda": Permission denied
astp0002:/var/log# sudo -u backup /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amandad: create debug directory "/var/log/amanda": Permission denied

I changed  permission to 777 - but without any changing


(One remarkable about your setup is that in a normal setup, you the
amandad binary is inside the libexec directory.)


normal

amanda  dgram   udp waitbackup  
/usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/lib/amanda/amandad




You are running with tcpd.   Are the entries in /etc/hosts.allow or
/etc/hosts.deny ok?



Both files is empty


/etc/inetd.conf

Do you find any traces that tcpd logged about invoking the program
or denying access (maybe you have to increase the verbosity of syslogd).
Or just run without tcpd, to assure that is not the problem.


I changed inetd.conf:
#amanda dgram   udp waitbackup  /usr/sbin/tcpd  
/usr/lib/amanda/amandad
amanda  dgram   udp waitbackup  /usr/lib/amanda/amandad 
amandad


and after that
/etc/init.d/inetd restart

After amcheck in syslog I see:
Jan 23 17:11:12 astp0002 inetd[30734]: /usr/lib/amanda/amandad: exit 
status 0x1

Jan 23 17:11:12 astp0002 last message repeated 38 times
Jan 23 17:11:12 astp0002 inetd[30734]: amanda/udp server failing 
(looping), service terminated





Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Bijnens

Leonid Shulov wrote:

Paul Bijnens wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:

Suddenly my amanda stoped backup one of my users PC and I don't found 
why.

amcheck report:
WARNING: astp0002: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?



Did you check all the items in:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcheck:_selfcheck_request_timed_out


Yes.


Fine!



/tmp
drwx--S---  2 backup backup  1024 2006-01-23 12:53 amanda/



Look in the amandad.DATETIME.debug file inside that directory
for clues.



In /tmp/amanda I don't have any amandad.DATETIME.debug file


any other files?
If there is no such file at all, then it means that amandad isn't
even starting.

When you start as user amanda "/usr/lib/amanda/amandad" manually
from a shell, it should sit there for about 30 seconds and then
time out.  Or do you get any errors about libraries not being found
etc.?

(One remarkable about your setup is that in a normal setup, you the
amandad binary is inside the libexec directory.)



/etc/inetd.conf
amanda  dgram   udp waitbackup  
/usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/lib/amanda/amandad



You are running with tcpd.   Are the entries in /etc/hosts.allow or
/etc/hosts.deny ok?


Both files is empty


Do you find any traces that tcpd logged about invoking the program
or denying access (maybe you have to increase the verbosity of syslogd).
Or just run without tcpd, to assure that is not the problem.

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Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-23 Thread Leonid Shulov

Paul Bijnens wrote:


Leonid Shulov wrote:

Suddenly my amanda stoped backup one of my users PC and I don't found 
why.

amcheck report:
WARNING: astp0002: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?



Did you check all the items in:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcheck:_selfcheck_request_timed_out


Yes.


/tmp
drwx--S---  2 backup backup  1024 2006-01-23 12:53 amanda/



Look in the amandad.DATETIME.debug file inside that directory
for clues.



In /tmp/amanda I don't have any amandad.DATETIME.debug file


/etc/inetd.conf
amanda  dgram   udp waitbackup  
/usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/lib/amanda/amandad



You are running with tcpd.   Are the entries in /etc/hosts.allow or
/etc/hosts.deny ok?


Both files is empty


Re: selfcheck request timed out

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Bijnens

Leonid Shulov wrote:

Suddenly my amanda stoped backup one of my users PC and I don't found why.
amcheck report:
WARNING: astp0002: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?


Did you check all the items in:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcheck:_selfcheck_request_timed_out



/tmp
drwx--S---  2 backup backup  1024 2006-01-23 12:53 amanda/


Look in the amandad.DATETIME.debug file inside that directory
for clues.



/etc/inetd.conf
amanda  dgram   udp waitbackup  /usr/sbin/tcpd  
/usr/lib/amanda/amandad


You are running with tcpd.   Are the entries in /etc/hosts.allow or
/etc/hosts.deny ok?


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Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Bijnens

Nader Amadeu wrote:

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 /tmp/amanda/amcheck.20051121214741.debug.
No TCP wrappers, no firewall.


That's the file on the server.
On the client there needs to be a file named /tmp/amanda/amandad.*.debug
Is it there?


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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 /tmp/amanda/amcheck.20051121214741.debug.
No TCP wrappers, no firewall.




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Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2005-11-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 at 11:08pm, Nader Amadeu wrote


this error was already extensively reported, but i have to do it again :-)
I installed amanda 2.4.5 on FreeBSD 5.3 to backup the main HD to a second
HD of my machine (so both amanda server and client where installed).
I created a configuration 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 the full qualified hostname),
/etc/inetd.conf (inetd restarted),


FreeBSD still uses inetd rather than xinetd?  Wow.


/etc/services, /etc/amandahosts, ~/.rhosts (from proper user).

My /tmp/amcheck.20051121214741.debug file has:


*snip*


As the error is on the client side, i think the changer
problems shouldnt be important. But are the only error message i have.


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?


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Duke University


Re: selfcheck request timed out error

2004-02-26 Thread jlm17
This is a tuff one. I really can't figure out what is going on.

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 at 3:06pm, jlm17 wrote


I commented out the only_from line from all three amanda services but it 
does not work.


The other thing to check is /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}.  I don't know Gentoo, 
but on RedHat xinetd uses them.  Accepts or denies based on those files 
should be logged in /var/log/secure.
I didn't have either a /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny. I created an 
/etc/hosts.allow with the one line: ALL: LOCAL No change in behavior.



Note that I do not get any lines about removing amanda services.


Yes, but...


If you're not getting anything in /tmp/amanda, then amandad isn't even 
starting up.  Is ipchains/iptables getting in the way?  What's the output 
of 'netstat -ln | grep 10080'?

netstat -ln | grep 10080
udp0  0 0.0.0.0:10080   0.0.0.0:*


That means amanda is listening, so that part of xinetd is working right.


As far as I know I do not have any iptables stuff turned on. I don't 
even have the iptables userland tools installed. I have turned it on in 
the kernel, though.
iptables looks empty:

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source   destination
You can check what rules are set up with 'iptables -nL'.  I'd say the next 
thing to do would be to look at the traffic.  Do 'tcpdump -i lo' and then 
run amcheck and see what happens.
tcpdump gives me this:
tcpdump -vv -i lo
tcpdump: listening on lo, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 68 bytes
10:08:27.706802 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], 
length: 145) royal.inse.lucent.com.798 > royal.inse.lucent.com.amanda: 
UDP, length: 117
10:08:37.704970 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], 
length: 145) royal.inse.lucent.com.798 > royal.inse.lucent.com.amanda: 
UDP, length: 117
10:08:47.706323 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], 
length: 145) royal.inse.lucent.com.798 > royal.inse.lucent.com.amanda: 
UDP, length: 117

Additionally I figured out that xinetd logs some stuff in /var/log/auth.log:

Feb 26 10:08:27 royal xinetd[5766]: START: amanda pid=5941 
from=152.148.113.221
Feb 26 10:08:27 royal xinetd[5941]: FAIL: amanda address 
from=152.148.113.221
Feb 26 10:08:37 royal xinetd[5766]: START: amanda pid=5942 
from=152.148.113.221
Feb 26 10:08:37 royal xinetd[5942]: FAIL: amanda address 
from=152.148.113.221
Feb 26 10:08:47 royal xinetd[5766]: START: amanda pid=5943 
from=152.148.113.221
Feb 26 10:08:47 royal xinetd[5943]: FAIL: amanda address 
from=152.148.113.221

Still not very useful though. I have changed the amandad config in xinetd:

service amanda
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= amanda
group   = amanda
groups  = yes
server  = /usr/libexec/amandad
# You need to ensure this points to your Amanda server!
# Don't just remove it!
only_from   = royal
disable = no
}
so that wait = no. That just made things worse. Running amandad by hand 
seems to do the right thing:

sudo -u amanda /usr/libexec/amandad
amandad: error receiving message: timeout
The next thing I will be trying is to run strace on xinetd and see if I 
can glean any information that way.

Thanks again for all of your help.



Re: selfcheck request timed out error

2004-02-26 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 10:16am, jlm17 wrote

> tcpdump gives me this:
> tcpdump -vv -i lo
> tcpdump: listening on lo, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 68 bytes
> 10:08:27.706802 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], 
> length: 145) royal.inse.lucent.com.798 > royal.inse.lucent.com.amanda: 
> UDP, length: 117
> 10:08:37.704970 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], 
> length: 145) royal.inse.lucent.com.798 > royal.inse.lucent.com.amanda: 
> UDP, length: 117
> 10:08:47.706323 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], 
> length: 145) royal.inse.lucent.com.798 > royal.inse.lucent.com.amanda: 
> UDP, length: 117

Those are the packets from amcheck.  As you can see, there's no reply.  
amandad isn't getting started.

> Additionally I figured out that xinetd logs some stuff in /var/log/auth.log:
> 
> Feb 26 10:08:27 royal xinetd[5766]: START: amanda pid=5941 
> from=152.148.113.221
> Feb 26 10:08:27 royal xinetd[5941]: FAIL: amanda address 
> from=152.148.113.221
>
> Still not very useful though. I have changed the amandad config in xinetd:

Actually, that is pretty useful.  From 'man xinetd.log':

   A FAIL entry has the format:

  FAIL: service-id reason [from=%d.%d.%d.%d]

   Possible reasons are:
.
.
  addressthe address check failed

I'd guess that reverse lookups aren't working?  Are you sure you restarted 
xinetd after removing the 'only_from' directive?  Because that address 
check is your problem.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University


Re: selfcheck request timed out error

2004-02-26 Thread jlm17
Thanks for the help. Turns out it was xinetd. There was an only_from in 
both /etc/xinetd.conf and in /etc/xinetd.d/amanda. By commenting out all 
of those amcheck returned with no errors.

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 at 10:16am, jlm17 wrote


tcpdump gives me this:
tcpdump -vv -i lo
tcpdump: listening on lo, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 68 bytes
10:08:27.706802 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], 
length: 145) royal.inse.lucent.com.798 > royal.inse.lucent.com.amanda: 
UDP, length: 117
10:08:37.704970 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], 
length: 145) royal.inse.lucent.com.798 > royal.inse.lucent.com.amanda: 
UDP, length: 117
10:08:47.706323 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], 
length: 145) royal.inse.lucent.com.798 > royal.inse.lucent.com.amanda: 
UDP, length: 117


Those are the packets from amcheck.  As you can see, there's no reply.  
amandad isn't getting started.


Additionally I figured out that xinetd logs some stuff in /var/log/auth.log:

Feb 26 10:08:27 royal xinetd[5766]: START: amanda pid=5941 
from=152.148.113.221
Feb 26 10:08:27 royal xinetd[5941]: FAIL: amanda address 
from=152.148.113.221

Still not very useful though. I have changed the amandad config in xinetd:


Actually, that is pretty useful.  From 'man xinetd.log':

   A FAIL entry has the format:

  FAIL: service-id reason [from=%d.%d.%d.%d]

   Possible reasons are:
.
.
  addressthe address check failed
I'd guess that reverse lookups aren't working?  Are you sure you restarted 
xinetd after removing the 'only_from' directive?  Because that address 
check is your problem.




Re: selfcheck request timed out error

2004-02-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 at 3:06pm, jlm17 wrote

> I commented out the only_from line from all three amanda services but it 
> does not work.

The other thing to check is /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}.  I don't know Gentoo, 
but on RedHat xinetd uses them.  Accepts or denies based on those files 
should be logged in /var/log/secure.

> Note that I do not get any lines about removing amanda services.

Yes, but...

> > If you're not getting anything in /tmp/amanda, then amandad isn't even 
> > starting up.  Is ipchains/iptables getting in the way?  What's the output 
> > of 'netstat -ln | grep 10080'?
> > 
> netstat -ln | grep 10080
> udp0  0 0.0.0.0:10080   0.0.0.0:*

That means amanda is listening, so that part of xinetd is working right.

> As far as I know I do not have any iptables stuff turned on. I don't 
> even have the iptables userland tools installed. I have turned it on in 
> the kernel, though.

You can check what rules are set up with 'iptables -nL'.  I'd say the next 
thing to do would be to look at the traffic.  Do 'tcpdump -i lo' and then 
run amcheck and see what happens.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University


Re: selfcheck request timed out error

2004-02-25 Thread jlm17
Thanks for the help. Responses to your questions are below:

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 at 8:57am, jlm17 wrote


I am having problems getting amcheck to return happy:

sudo -u amanda amcheck -c fullbackup

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

WARNING: royal.inse.lucent.com: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
Client check: 1 host checked in 30.011 seconds, 1 problem found


Here is the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file:

service amanda
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= amanda
group   = amanda
groups  = yes
server  = /usr/libexec/amandad
# You need to ensure this points to your Amanda server!
# Don't just remove it!
only_from   = royal
disable = no
}


Just to check, if you remove the only_from line, does it work?
I commented out the only_from line from all three amanda services but it 
does not work.


There are no error messages from xinetd regarding amanda in /var/log/syslog.

When I restart xinetd I only get the [OK],but I get these lines in 
/var/log/syslog:

Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/amanda [file=/etc/xinetd.conf] [line=13]
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/chargen-tcp [file=/etc/xinetd.d/chargen-tcp] [line=48]
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/chargen-udp [file=/etc/xinetd.d/chargen-udp] [line=13]
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd [file=/etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd] [line=14]
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/daytime-tcp [file=/etc/xinetd.d/daytime-tcp] [line=13]
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/daytime-udp [file=/etc/xinetd.d/daytime-udp] [line=13]
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/echo-tcp [file=/etc/xinetd.d/echo-tcp] [line=14]
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/echo-udp [file=/etc/xinetd.d/echo-udp] [line=13]
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/swat [file=/etc/xinetd.d/swat] [line=14]
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/time-tcp [file=/etc/xinetd.d/time-tcp] [line=17]
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/time-udp [file=/etc/xinetd.d/time-udp] [line=13]
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: removing chargen
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: removing chargen
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: removing printer
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: removing daytime
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: removing daytime
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: removing echo
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: removing echo
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: removing swat
Feb 25 07:30:06 royal xinetd[28751]: removing time

Note that I do not get any lines about removing amanda services.
What does it way when you start it up?  On RedHat it'll tell you how many 
services are available...


There is nothing in /tmp. I'm not sure if my amanda configuration would 
use /tmp for anything. There is no amandad*debug file anywhere on the 
computer.


If you're not getting anything in /tmp/amanda, then amandad isn't even 
starting up.  Is ipchains/iptables getting in the way?  What's the output 
of 'netstat -ln | grep 10080'?

netstat -ln | grep 10080
udp0  0 0.0.0.0:10080   0.0.0.0:*
As far as I know I do not have any iptables stuff turned on. I don't 
even have the iptables userland tools installed. I have turned it on in 
the kernel, though.

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Re: selfcheck request timed out error

2004-02-25 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 at 8:57am, jlm17 wrote

> I am having problems getting amcheck to return happy:
> 
> sudo -u amanda amcheck -c fullbackup
> 
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> 
> WARNING: royal.inse.lucent.com: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> Client check: 1 host checked in 30.011 seconds, 1 problem found

> Here is the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda file:
> 
> service amanda
> {
>  socket_type = dgram
>  protocol= udp
>  wait= yes
>  user= amanda
>  group   = amanda
>  groups  = yes
>  server  = /usr/libexec/amandad
>  # You need to ensure this points to your Amanda server!
>  # Don't just remove it!
>  only_from   = royal
>  disable = no
> }

Just to check, if you remove the only_from line, does it work?

> There are no error messages from xinetd regarding amanda in /var/log/syslog.

What does it way when you start it up?  On RedHat it'll tell you how many 
services are available...

> There is nothing in /tmp. I'm not sure if my amanda configuration would 
> use /tmp for anything. There is no amandad*debug file anywhere on the 
> computer.

If you're not getting anything in /tmp/amanda, then amandad isn't even 
starting up.  Is ipchains/iptables getting in the way?  What's the output 
of 'netstat -ln | grep 10080'?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University


Re: selfcheck request timed out.

2002-05-12 Thread Ulrik Sandberg

On Mon, 13 May 2002, jmurray wrote:

> Ok, I figured out the permissions problem that was preventing amcheck from
> working, as per below.
> amcheck now finishes with no errors.
>
> When I run amdump, "top" on the client shows gtar working away, so it data
> compression seems to be happening. amdump finishes with no errors, but in
> the report email, I get:
>
> > These dumps were to tape daily001.
> > The next tape Amanda expects to use is: daily001.
> >
> > FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> >   client.agic. /usr lev 0 FAILED [Request to client.agic.ne.jp timed out.]
> > ...
>
> Can anyone help me end this nightmare?
>
> Shawn

Check the files in /tmp/amanda for the date in question. Better yet,
remove /tmp/amanda, run a dump and scrutinize the files created.

Could be the estimation timing out due to large partition, slow machine,
short 'etimeout', low 'netusage', or a combination of these.

Estimation timeout is one of the rare situations where, in my opinion,
Amanda does not make the error visible.

I notice that you use a single tape. It would make things easier for all
of us if you use a somewhat more realistic setup. For example:

 dumpcycle 1 week# a full dump every week
 runspercycle 5  # backup weekdays only
 tapecycle 8 tapes   # three extra tapes

Or, if you're really short of tapes:

 dumpcycle 2 days# a full dump every other day
 runspercycle 2  # backup every day
 tapecycle 3 tapes   # one extra tape

--
Ulrik Sandberg





Re: selfcheck request timed out.

2002-05-12 Thread GIC MLs

Ok, I figured out the permissions problem that was preventing amcheck from
working, as per below.
amcheck now finishes with no errors.

When I run amdump, "top" on the client shows gtar working away, so it data
compression seems to be happening. amdump finishes with no errors, but in
the report email, I get:

> These dumps were to tape daily001.
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: daily001.
>
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   client.agic. /usr lev 0 FAILED [Request to client.agic.ne.jp timed out.]
>
>
> STATISTICS:
>   Total   Full  Daily
>       
> Estimate Time (hrs:min)0:15
> Run Time (hrs:min) 0:15
> Dump Time (hrs:min)0:00   0:00   0:00
> Output Size (meg)   0.00.00.0
> Original Size (meg) 0.00.00.0
> Avg Compressed Size (%) -- -- --
> Filesystems Dumped0  0  0
> Avg Dump Rate (k/s) -- -- --
>
> Tape Time (hrs:min)0:00   0:00   0:00
> Tape Size (meg) 0.00.00.0
> Tape Used (%)   0.00.00.0
> Filesystems Taped 0  0  0
> Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) -- -- --
>
>
> NOTES:
>   planner: Adding new disk client.agic.ne.jp:/usr.
>   driver: WARNING: got empty schedule from planner
>   taper: tape daily001 kb 0 fm 0 [OK]
>
>
> DUMP SUMMARY:
>  DUMPER STATSTAPER STATS
> HOSTNAME DISKL ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
> -- - 
> client.agic.ne /usr0
FAILED ---
>
> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2)

Can anyone help me end this nightmare?

Shawn



- Original Message -
From: "Jonathan Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "GIC MLs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: selfcheck request timed out.


> check .amandahosts file.
> also make sure that you don't use FQDN in .amandahosts.
>
> GIC MLs wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running Amanda 2.4.2p2, and when I run "amcheck daily", I get:
> >
> > Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> > -
> > NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> > Tape daily001 label ok
> > NOTE: info dir /usr/local/etc/amanda/daily/curinfo: does not exist
> > NOTE: it will be created on the next run
> > Server check took 5.219 seconds
> >
> > Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> > 
> > WARNING: client.agic.ne.jp: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> > Client check: 1 host checked in 30.078 seconds, 1 problem found
> >
> > The client machine is pingable and configured with amandad running off
of
> > inetd.
> > Can anyone tell me where I should start looking for the root of this
> > problem?
> >
> > Thank you for any assistance.
> >
> > Shawn
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>




Re: selfcheck request timed out.

2002-05-10 Thread Jonathan Murray

check .amandahosts file.
also make sure that you don't use FQDN in .amandahosts.

GIC MLs wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Amanda 2.4.2p2, and when I run "amcheck daily", I get:
> 
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> Tape daily001 label ok
> NOTE: info dir /usr/local/etc/amanda/daily/curinfo: does not exist
> NOTE: it will be created on the next run
> Server check took 5.219 seconds
> 
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> 
> WARNING: client.agic.ne.jp: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> Client check: 1 host checked in 30.078 seconds, 1 problem found
> 
> The client machine is pingable and configured with amandad running off of
> inetd.
> Can anyone tell me where I should start looking for the root of this
> problem?
> 
> Thank you for any assistance.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> 







Re: selfcheck request timed out.

2002-05-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain

On Fri, 10 May 2002 at 1:32pm, GIC MLs wrote

> I'm running Amanda 2.4.2p2, and when I run "amcheck daily", I get:

> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> 
> WARNING: client.agic.ne.jp: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> Client check: 1 host checked in 30.078 seconds, 1 problem found
> 
> The client machine is pingable and configured with amandad running off of
> inetd.
> Can anyone tell me where I should start looking for the root of this
> problem?

Have you gone through the steps in amcheck section of Faq-O-Matic?  That's 
the place to start, then come back here if that doesn't work.

http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/1.html

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University




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 the perms you might find
> that /tmp has limited access.

Or that the subdirectory, /tmp/amanda, has inappropriate ownership/permissions.

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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

Tim




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 that by he truss..at least I believe 
that should work...

Don

John R. Jackson wrote:

>>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 loop at all:
>
>  amandadgram  udp wait   amanda /bin/sleep sleep 4
>
>If that also does the Hangup (amcheck will fail, but that's not important
>at this point), then I have no clue.  Well, maybe one ...
>
>>I can truss the amandad with no problem as well as determine what 
>>arguments and exit status by running from the command line
>>
>
>When you run things by hand, they have a different environment (in many
>ways) than when inetd runs them.  It can be a real pain figuring out
>what the difference is.
>
>When you ran things by hand, did you run them a "amanda"?  In
>particular, did you do something like this:
>
>  su - amanda -c "/var/adm/amanda/libexec/amandad"
>
>The leading '-' tells "su" to set up the environment as though the
>user had logged in (i.e. it does not inherit whatever you have).
>And specifying the full path makes sure $PATH isn't getting you a
>different version of the program.
>
>If that's not it, and the sleep also fails, try using sleep again but
>change "amanda" to "root".
>
>If that also fails, there is something wrong with the way your system
>is set up, but without looking at it myself I wouldn't have the faintest
>idea where to start.
>
>If root works but amanda fails, you've may have some kind of permissions
>problem.  Since amandad (et al) are dieing right at the start, I'd guess
>a shared library.
>
>One other thing you could try is truss (-f) inetd itself to watch
>the amanda service (I'd still use sleep at this point) get started.
>The problem could easily be that the forked inetd child is having the
>problem and never even getting to the other program (sleep, amandad,
>truss, etc).
>
>Speaking of which, did you check the access time on amandad after trying
>amcheck?  If it's not getting updated, that also means it's probably
>the inetd child failing before it can exec the real program.
>
>John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>





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 loop at all:

  amandadgram  udp wait   amanda /bin/sleep sleep 4

If that also does the Hangup (amcheck will fail, but that's not important
at this point), then I have no clue.  Well, maybe one ...

>I can truss the amandad with no problem as well as determine what 
>arguments and exit status by running from the command line

When you run things by hand, they have a different environment (in many
ways) than when inetd runs them.  It can be a real pain figuring out
what the difference is.

When you ran things by hand, did you run them a "amanda"?  In
particular, did you do something like this:

  su - amanda -c "/var/adm/amanda/libexec/amandad"

The leading '-' tells "su" to set up the environment as though the
user had logged in (i.e. it does not inherit whatever you have).
And specifying the full path makes sure $PATH isn't getting you a
different version of the program.

If that's not it, and the sleep also fails, try using sleep again but
change "amanda" to "root".

If that also fails, there is something wrong with the way your system
is set up, but without looking at it myself I wouldn't have the faintest
idea where to start.

If root works but amanda fails, you've may have some kind of permissions
problem.  Since amandad (et al) are dieing right at the start, I'd guess
a shared library.

One other thing you could try is truss (-f) inetd itself to watch
the amanda service (I'd still use sleep at this point) get started.
The problem could easily be that the forked inetd child is having the
problem and never even getting to the other program (sleep, amandad,
truss, etc).

Speaking of which, did you check the access time on amandad after trying
amcheck?  If it's not getting updated, that also means it's probably
the inetd child failing before it can exec the real program.

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 inetd[189]: [ID 667328 daemon.error] amanda/udp 
server failing (looping), service terminated
Jan 29 13:50:28 helix inetd[189]: [ID 858011 daemon.warning] 
/tmp/amanda_test: Hangup

I can truss the amandad with no problem as well as determine what 
arguments and exit status by running from the command line

John R. Jackson wrote:

>>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 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

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 /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 above.  Is that
>real or is it just a cut/paste artifact?
>
>The important part is that there be one, and only one, arg to each of
>the lines (after the path to the executable).  If the arg (e.g. "amanda")
>is missing, the server will try to reference argv[0] and die.
>
>What you have above is OK if there are actually three lines and not six.
>
>Did inetd whine into /var/adm/messages when you HUP'd it?
>
>Do you have (I think it's called) BSM installed (some kind of enhanced
>security package)?  I recall problems with it, but don't remember the
>details.
>
>If none of that helps, here are the next things I do (from my inetd.conf):
>
>#JJ First debug trick -- create this shell script (chmod +x /tmp/amandad.test):
>#JJ #!/bin/ksh
>#JJ exec > /tmp/amandad.out.$$ 2>&1
>#JJ echo "$(/bin/date): starting amandad ($#): " "$@"
>#JJ /opt/amanda/libexec/amandad "$@"
>#JJ status=$?
>#JJ echo "$(/bin/date): amandad done: status is $status"
>#JJ exit $status
>#JJ
>#JJ amanda dgram   udp waitbackup /tmp/amandad.test amandad
>#JJ
>#JJ Next debug trick -- run amandad under truss:
>#JJ
>#JJ amanda dgram   udp waitbackup /bin/truss amandad -fo 
>/tmp/amandad.truss /opt/amanda/libexec/amandad
>
>Note that the user name ("backup" vs. "amanda") and paths to the binaries
>on your system will be different.
>
>John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>





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 above.  Is that
real or is it just a cut/paste artifact?

The important part is that there be one, and only one, arg to each of
the lines (after the path to the executable).  If the arg (e.g. "amanda")
is missing, the server will try to reference argv[0] and die.

What you have above is OK if there are actually three lines and not six.

Did inetd whine into /var/adm/messages when you HUP'd it?

Do you have (I think it's called) BSM installed (some kind of enhanced
security package)?  I recall problems with it, but don't remember the
details.

If none of that helps, here are the next things I do (from my inetd.conf):

#JJ First debug trick -- create this shell script (chmod +x /tmp/amandad.test):
#JJ #!/bin/ksh
#JJ exec > /tmp/amandad.out.$$ 2>&1
#JJ echo "$(/bin/date): starting amandad ($#): " "$@"
#JJ /opt/amanda/libexec/amandad "$@"
#JJ status=$?
#JJ echo "$(/bin/date): amandad done: status is $status"
#JJ exit $status
#JJ
#JJ amanda  dgram   udp waitbackup /tmp/amandad.test amandad
#JJ
#JJ Next debug trick -- run amandad under truss:
#JJ
#JJ amanda  dgram   udp waitbackup /bin/truss amandad -fo 
/tmp/amandad.truss /opt/amanda/libexec/amandad

Note that the user name ("backup" vs. "amanda") and paths to the binaries
on your system will be different.

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?

2002-01-29 Thread Don Potter

Here ya' go.basiclly the config appeneeded when you use patch-system
/etc/services
amanda 10080/udp
amandaidx 10082/tcp
amidxtape 10083/tcp
/etc/inetd.conf
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

John R. Jackson wrote:

>>...  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. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>





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. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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 executed by inetd. 
  What shows up in amanda.xxx.debug when you run amcheck and inetd 
starts amandad?


> 
> 
>
> amandad: debug 1 pid 4921 ruid 3001 euid 3001 start time Wed Jan  9 12:38:32 200
> 2

[...lots of path messages]


> amandad: dgram_recv: timeout after 30 seconds
> amandad: error receiving message: timeout
> error receiving message: timeout
> amandad: pid 4921 finish time Wed Jan  9 12:39:02 2002
> 
> 
>
> 
> Also i have to say that i want to use AMANDA with a SUN STARAGE L20
> 
> Thanks for all.
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Re: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? error

2001-10-29 Thread Bernhard R. Erdmann

> I am having a problem backing up one of my UNIX boxes with Amanda.  When I
> run AmCheck I get the error:
> 
> WARNING: bill: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?
> Client check: 7 hosts checked in 29.678 seconds, 1 problem found.
> 
> As you can see the check runs successfully on 6 hosts but times out on 1.
> The host is not down as I can ping and rlogin in to it without any problem.
> It does also have the appropriate entries in the /etc/services and
> /etc/inetd.conf

What's in /tmp/amanda/*debug on this machine?



Re: selfcheck request timed out

2001-07-11 Thread xavier

sendoro wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
>
> Pls help, I have spent a lot of time but I haven't yet succeded,
> I am getting this error "WARNING: xxx: selfcheck request timed out.  
> Host down?"
> on  amanda-2.4.2p2
> I trying to backup the client from the same machine which is tape 
> server. so that I can backup its file system.
>
> 1.Here is my config. I configured the tape server as follows.
> ./configure  --with-user=amanda --with-group=amanda 
> --with-config=config --without-bsd-security --with-amandaho
> sts --with-index-server=xxx.domain.com 
> --with-tape-server=.domain.com --with-tape-drive=/dev
> /nst0 --with-fqdn --with-gnutar=/usr/local/bin/tar
>
> 2. my xinted.conf has the following
> service amanda
> {
>   socket_type dgram
>   protocoludp
>   waityes
>   useramanda
>   group   amanda
>   server  /usr/local/libexec/amandad
>   port10080
> }
> service amandaidx
> {
>   socket_type stream
>   protocoltcp
>   waitno
>   useramanda
>   group   amanda
>   server  /usr/local/libexec/amindexd
>   port10082
>   log_type= SYSLOG authpriv
>   log_on_success  = HOST PID
>   log_on_failure  = HOST RECORD
> }
> service amidxtape
> {
>   socket_type stream
>   protocoltcp
>   waitno
>   useramanda
>   group   amanda
>   server  /usr/local/libexec/amidxtaped
>   port10083
>   log_type= SYSLOG authpriv
>   log_on_success  = HOST PID
>   log_on_failure  = HOST RECORD
> }
> 3. I increased the ctimeout from 30secs to 60 secs in amanda.conf
> 4. I unistalled nfs
> 5. the /etc/services looks good.
> 6. Howerver when trying to rlogin -l amanda_user it is asking for 
> password
>
> Kindly show me what to do. Thank you
> ^^^
> J. I. Sendoro
> IS Manager
> NewA.Net Ltd.
> Tel. +255 22 2700 962
> Mob. +255 744 279 721
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> Dictionary
>  
> ^^^
>
Hi, what you seem to be missing is the file ".amandahosts".
It must be in the home directory of the dump user (here "amanda") and 
looks like the following:
host.to.give.access amanda

Where host.to.give.access would be your machine. However, amanda doesn't 
seem to take ip adresses so give your machine name (try to ping yourself 
with the name you give to see if the name is recognised by the system, 
if not, add it to /etc/hosts).

That should be it, if you have more problem with this issue, i seggest 
looking at the Faq-O-matic (there is a link on www.amanda.org) , it 
saved me a great deal of time.






Re: selfcheck request timed out

2001-07-11 Thread Olivier Nicole

>I am getting this error "WARNING: xxx: selfcheck request timed out.  Host 
>down?"
>on  amanda-2.4.2p2 

As a short guess, I's say you have to open the ports on tcp.wrapper.

What do you use in disklist? localhost of the FDQN

Olivier



Re: selfcheck request timed out.

2001-07-10 Thread Olivier Nicole

>since a reboot of the firewall, amanda reports "selfcheck request timed
>out." for some (up to four) servers. some servers are never reported (they
>seem to repsond to the selfcheck request), the other servers change (i.e.,
>servers a,b,c,d are reported to time out, 1 hour later servers c,d,e,f are
>reported to time out).

I would suggest that the firewall had been reconfigured to allow
amanda and the confg was not saved.

When the firewall rebooted, the modifications were lost.

Olivier



Re: selfcheck request timed out - redux

2001-06-25 Thread John R. Jackson

>...  What I really was looking for was a more
>efficient manner of diagnosing the problems in response to the error
>message.

Here's the order I would do things after adding the entry and HUP'ing
inetd (or the equivalent for xinetd):

  * Look at whatever system log inetd writes to and make sure it
didn't complain about anything.  For instance, if you forgot to add
the amandad service to /etc/services, inetd will whine to the log
file about a bad service name.

It might even be useful to deliberately put a bad entry in the file
just to see where error messages get logged.

  * Run "netstat -a | grep amanda" and make sure someone (inetd) is
listening on the amanda port(s).  If not, you for certain have an
inetd problem and there's no point going further.  It might be as
simple as having forgotten to do the HUP.  Or it could be some typo
in the line (which probably would have been logged).

  * Run "amcheck -cl " on the tape server (after updating
disklist, etc).  If it times out, the first thing to check is the
files in /tmp/amanda on the client.  If you don't see an amandad*debug
file at all, inetd was not able to start it for some reason.  Back to
the log files, or try the "run it by hand" test.

If the file is there, check it for errors and also look for the
corresponding selfcheck*debug file, although things rarely get this
far and still fail.

At least part of the difficulty with all this is the differences
between OS's.  For instance, you mentioned setting the user and group
in inetd.conf.  None of my OS's support that, so I wouldn't have had
any idea to advise you to look for that type of problem.

>Josh Kuperman   

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: selfcheck request timed out - redux

2001-06-23 Thread Josh Kuperman

I think I should reply since I figured out I yet again had a typo in
inetd.conf. Unless adding "don't make a typo in inetd.conf or if you
do spot it" to the FAQ.  What I really was looking for was a more
efficient manner of diagnosing the problems in response to the error
message.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:33:54PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >When I run amcheck I get 'selfcheck request timed out' while trying to
> >connect to localhost ...
> 
> First, don't use "localhost".  It will bite you eventually.  Use the

My best guess is it has bitten me many times.

> fully qualified domain name of the host.  Any modern network code will
> notice they are the same thing and you won't lose any performance.
> 
> >I remember getting this error on other installations. It seems to get
> >me every time I do a new install or even an update on an old machine.
> 
> It is, by far, the most common problem for new installations.  There are


> >... I
> >have found that with a machine with two ethernet interfaces, each with
> >its own IP and name, one will work and the other will fail.  ...

I have problems because I'm almost alway using dual homed hosts where
I'll have one interface on the internet and typically a 192.168.1.x
interface on my local net. The problems come from getting the reverse
lookup to match the name look up. I'm not sure if this can actually
cause the "selfcheck request timed out" message.

> 
> If you get a case like this again, please post and maybe we can look
> into what's going on and see if there is something Amanda could do to
> make it better.


I will the next time I set it another machine.

> 
> >I have
> >found cases where I need to put both the user and the operator in
> >inetd.conf.

I meant to say where I need both the user and the group, in my case
operator.operator in inetd.conf. that was just typing too fast - which
is probably what happens when I make entries in inetd.conf

> 
> Not sure I understood this one.
> 
> >Does anyone have a complete list of what causes this error message?  ...
> 
> That's what the FAQ at www.amanda.org is for.  Here are the main URL's
> about this particular topic:
> 
>   http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/16.html
>   http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/140.html
> 
> I think some of this is also covered in "the book chapter" referenced
> at www.amanda.org.
>  
> >... I
> >keep thinking about what it could be and then I try something. If it
> >fixes it I stop (and forget exactly what I did to get it working).  ...
> 
> Instead of forgetting :-), how about adding an FAQ item yourself?
> You'll not only help yourself next time you run into the same thing,
> you'll also be helping other people.

I would if they weren't already in the FAQ. My problem is not that I
ever come up with a new problem but that it is hard to diagnose it. I
did look at those pages. And I will look at them again and will
readily acknowledge my need to go through more thoroughly. I
downloaded and installed lsof.  But I didn't know what files to look
for when I ran lsof. I saw some of the pieces running, that is some
files that were obviously part of amandam, and thought they all were.

I also tried downloading the C programs, gethostbyname.c,
gethostbyaddr.c, and getservbyname.c, to help figure what was
happening. For some reasons I will examine later I was unable to get
them to compile on the machine I am running amanda on.

I also looked through the tmp directory, and probably should have
figured out staight away that the amandad wasn't being started through
inetd because the files were too short. But of course that's what I'd
expect with the timeout message.

It feel that I should have gotten the mechanics of testing down; but
somehonw I haven't. I'm not sure what, if anything, I really should
have asked. I suspect the answer was run top, i.e. "top -Uoperator"
and watch to see that an amandad process and at least a second amcheck
progress starts. Though even in this case I'm not really sure what I
should see.



-- 
Josh Kuperman   
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: selfcheck request timed out - redux

2001-06-22 Thread John R. Jackson

>When I run amcheck I get 'selfcheck request timed out' while trying to
>connect to localhost ...

First, don't use "localhost".  It will bite you eventually.  Use the
fully qualified domain name of the host.  Any modern network code will
notice they are the same thing and you won't lose any performance.

>I remember getting this error on other installations. It seems to get
>me every time I do a new install or even an update on an old machine.

It is, by far, the most common problem for new installations.  There are
just so many OS's and possible ways for to screw up, that unless you
practice all the time :-), it's probably going to keep showing up.

>... I
>have found that with a machine with two ethernet interfaces, each with
>its own IP and name, one will work and the other will fail.  ...

If you get a case like this again, please post and maybe we can look
into what's going on and see if there is something Amanda could do to
make it better.

>I have
>found cases where I need to put both the user and the operator in
>inetd.conf.

Not sure I understood this one.

>Does anyone have a complete list of what causes this error message?  ...

That's what the FAQ at www.amanda.org is for.  Here are the main URL's
about this particular topic:

  http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/16.html
  http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/140.html

I think some of this is also covered in "the book chapter" referenced
at www.amanda.org.
 
>... I
>keep thinking about what it could be and then I try something. If it
>fixes it I stop (and forget exactly what I did to get it working).  ...

Instead of forgetting :-), how about adding an FAQ item yourself?
You'll not only help yourself next time you run into the same thing,
you'll also be helping other people.

>Josh Kuperman   

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: selfcheck request timed out

2001-01-22 Thread Gerald T. Freymann

> Are there any clues in the /tmp/amanda directory on the server ?

 Nope. not a thing. When I run 'amcheck eagle' it doesn't write anything in
the /tmp/amanda directory.

 I do see stuff in there from last night's successful backup of the two
unix boxes though. That's the goofy part. The backups of the Unix boxes
works fine, just I broke the PC shares when I replaced the old server with
the new. FreeBSD 4.2 Release. The ports tree has Amanda 2.4.1p1

-Gerry





Re: selfcheck request timed out

2001-01-22 Thread Gerald T. Freymann

> Are you able to communicate with the PC using the smbclient program ?
> i.e. Can you interact with it by typing from the amanda server
> smbclient  file://mypcname/mysharename  share-password

 Yep. 

./smbclient file://ww2/d -U samba

 It then prompts me for the password, and I can list the files, etc.

-Gerry





Re: Selfcheck request timed out

2000-10-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva

On Oct 28, 2000, Vijay Parthasarathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> WARNING: par: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down? 

Check the on-line FAQ at www.amanda.org.

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