On Saturday, April 07, 2012 09:22:17 PM Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 4/7/2012 11:54 AM, gene heskett wrote: > > 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 > > Gene: > > Don't know nothin' about Amanda but I do note that its developers at > zmanda.com provide instructions for configuring both xinetd and inetd > which suggests to me both support their login model. > > As for your ongoing saga of ipv4/ipv6, I just asked Google for an > opinion and got back > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inetutils/+bug/379621 > > Could be this is your problem too.
I suspect you are correct, bookmarked also. Noplace in that thread was the bsd version mentioned. I wonder if the OP even knows they are not the same. > Regards, > Kent Thanks Kent. 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> The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
