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6 .\" Manual: System Administration Commands
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10 .TH "AMSERVICE" "8" "11/05/2009" "Amanda 2\&.6\&.1p2" "System Administration Commands"
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22 amservice \- run an amanda service on a client
24 .HP \w'\fBamservice\fR\ 'u
25 \fBamservice\fR \fIhostname\fR \fIauth\fR \fIservice\fR [\-f\ \fIinput_file\fR] [\-o\ \fIconfigoption\fR]...
31 service on a client\&. It can be used without amanda server configuration (amanda\&.conf and disklist)\&. It can be used to check communication between a server and a client\&. Amservice reads stdin to capture the REQ packet to send to the client\&.
35 man page for more details about
41 The hostname of the client\&.
46 The auth to use, one of: bsd, bsdudp, bsdtcp, ssh, rsh or krb5\&. The client must be configured with this auth\&.
51 The amanda service to execute on the client\&. One of noop, selfcheck or sendsize\&.
56 Use the file input_file instead of stdin to read the REQ packet from\&.
59 \fB\-o\fR \fIconfigoption\fR
61 See the "\fBCONFIGURATION OVERRIDE\fR" section in
66 The noop service is easy to execute because it does not require a REQ packet:
68 amservice hostname bsdtcp noop < /dev/null.fi
70 The example executes the noop service on the client using bsdtcp auth\&. This is useful for debugging connection problems\&. It print an OPTIONS line upon success\&.
72 It is more difficult to execute the selfcheck or sendsize service, as these require a valid REQ packet\&. If you have already uccessfully run amanda, you can find valid REQ packets in the amandad\&.*\&.debug files\&.
75 The exit code of \fBamservice\fR is one of:
78 1 = error executing amandad on the client\&.
83 doesn\'t parse the REP packet, it can only detect failures in executing amandad on the client\&.
85 can exit with value 0 even if the user is not authorized to execute the service\&. An error message will be printed\&.
94 \fBJean\-Louis Martineau\fR <\&martineau@zmanda\&.com\&>
96 Zmanda, Inc\&. (http://www\&.zmanda\&.com)