OK, so I'm an idiot. The 'port not secure' failure was due to the setuid bit not being set on amcheck. So never mind. Thanks for listening.
On Thursday 23 August 2001 11:23, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote: > I have completely replicated functionality of our old Amanda backup server > onto a new machine. With the exact same set up and the exact same config > files (changed local information, of course), I get these when amcheck > tries to contact the clients: > > ERROR: XXXXXX: [addr XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX hostname lookup failed] > WARNING: XXXXXX: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? > WARNING: XXXXXX: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? > WARNING: XXXXXX: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? > WARNING: XXXXXX: selfcheck request timed out. Host down? > Client check: 5 hosts checked in 30.081 seconds, 5 problems found. > > For the first error, the addr that it gives me is the address of the local > server, and not the server that it should be trying to contact. The last > error is the backup server trying to contact itself!! > > The other differences are that Our current, working Amanda server is a > Solaris machine, and the Amanda software was compiled from source. The new > server runs Debian, and was installed from .deb packages. Both are > 2.4.1p1. > > I've checked inetd.conf, hosts.allow, hosts.deny, /temp/amanda/*. > Everything is as it should be, and no errors are being recoreded into > /temp/amanda, nor the /var/log/auth.log files on the client machines. I'm > fresh out of ideads. > > Any help will be VASTLY appreciated. Thanks! -- my card... _______________________________________________ | | | Jason Rashaad Jackson | | ____ ____ | | | \ / | UNIX Systems Administrator | | | | 2032 Dana Building | | | |\ /| | (Office) 734.615.1422 | | | | . | | (Mobile) 734.649.6641 | | |___| |___| http://www.umich.edu/~jrashaad | | G O B L U E | |_______________________________________________|
