I recently lost my ability to backup the shop machine with amanda. In trouble-shooting (watch it, trouble can shoot back), I first converted from what I thought was inetd, to xinetd, but that came with a duff amanda file, so that didn't work either.
A. It turns out that there are actually 3 different versions of the inetd series of networking helpers extant in the lucid repos. inetutils-inetd bsdutils-inetd xinetd It appears that the only one that actually supports the amanda security login model of 'bsdtcp' is the bsd version! So I made good backups of both shop and lathe last night. inetutils-inetd may have another effect, if you do a #$>netstat -a |grep amanda on a machine with the inetutils version installed, you get back: tcp6 0 0 *:amanda *:* LISTEN on a machine with the bsd version, you get back: tcp 0 0 *:amanda *:* LISTEN Apparently the inetutils version now speaks only ipv6! The bsd version can speak either but ack the man page, needs a separate invocation for ipv6 if both are to be serviced on the same machine. You will recall I had to do something that blacklisted ipv6 in order to get any network connection at all on the lathe box, but that message has been expired now and I don't recall what it was that I had to do to it now. Whatever it was, I suspect that now that I have the correct version of inetd installed for amanda, that I could probably undo that blacklist without harming the ipv4 networking now. Trivia data someone might want to file away in case a bare metal reinstall goes south like the one I did on 'lathe' did. I have no clue what is on the livecd I installed from. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Some people around here wouldn't recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
