Re: Debian machine as Amanda tapehost, can't see itself

["Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com>]

On Tue Oct  9 15:28:54 2001 Bill Benedetto wrote...
>
>
>  Stan> I'm trying to set up a Debian machine (potato with 2.4.9
>  Stan> kernel) as an Amanada tapehost to replace a HP-UX
>  Stan> machine.
>  Stan> 
>  Stan> At the moent it's mostly working, except that it can't
>  Stan> see itself, as far as Amanda is concerned.
>  Stan> 
>  Stan> Sugestions?
>
>  Bill> Did you make sure that the host was listed in the
>  Bill> $HOME/.amandahosts file (probably best if you put both the FQDN
>  Bill> and the non-FQDN versions in the file).
>  Bill> 
>  Bill> We didn't need/use the .amandahosts file before we switched to
>  Bill> Debian (although I believe that is more a function of the version
>  Bill> of Amanda than the OS beneath the covers).
>
>  Stan> Yes the neweer versions do default to that type of
>  Stan> authentication. Yes it's setup OK. Heres the debug file,
>  Stan> and ideas?
>  Stan>
>  Stan> amcheck: debug 1 pid 543 ruid 1001 euid 0 start time Tue Oct  9 13:41:54 2001
>  Stan> amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.769
>  Stan> amcheck-clients: dgram_send_addr: sendto(170.85.109.24.10080) failed: Invalid argument 
>  Stan> amcheck-clients: dgram_send_addr: sendto(170.85.109.24.10080) failed: Invalid argument 
>  Stan> amcheck-clients: dgram_send_addr: sendto(170.85.109.24.10080) failed: Invalid argument 
>  Stan> amcheck: pid 543 finish time Tue Oct  9 13:42:24 2001
>
>Nope.  No ideas....
>
>How about some basics:
>
>I assume at this point that your backups work EXCEPT for the
>tapehost?

Except for 2 (of about 20 machines) that for some reason seem to be unable
to do reverse DNS on the new tapehost. I'm pretty certain this is a patch
level issue on those 2 machines.

>
>I also assume that your tapehost is set up correctly
>(/etc/services, for example) and that you have the appropriate
>debian packages loaded (amanda-client, amanda-common, &
>amanda-server - I think).

Yep.


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