xinetd/inetd (or amandad) does not appear to respond successfully to “amanda” service requests on this AEE server (localhost)

  • This article is for Amanda Enterprise (AE)
  • This article is for Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM)

Error Message

xinetd/inetd (or amandad) does not appear to respond successfully to "amanda" service requests on this AEE server (localhost).

Error Description

Like most services started from x/inetd, the firewall or TCP-Wrapper, the client needs to be configured to allow the server to run/

Solution

Edit your /etc/hosts to allow to allow amandad through.Example command:

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# printf 'amandad: localhost\n' >> /etc/hosts.allow #This adds the amandad server to run when called from the localhost.