2 .\" Author: Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com>
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5 .\" Manual: System Administration Commands
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9 .TH "AMSERVICE" "8" "01/22/2009" "Amanda 2\&.6\&.1" "System Administration Commands"
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170 amservice \- run an amanda service on a client
173 .HP \w'\fBamservice\fR\ 'u
174 \fBamservice\fR \fIhostname\fR \fIauth\fR \fIservice\fR [\-f\ \fIinput_file\fR] [\-o\ \fIconfigoption\fR]...
181 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\&.
185 man page for more details about
191 The hostname of the client\&.
196 The auth to use, one of: bsd, bsdudp, bsdtcp, ssh, rsh or krb5\&. The client must be configured with this auth\&.
201 The amanda service to execute on the client\&. One of noop, selfcheck or sendsize\&.
206 Use the file input_file instead of stdin to read the REQ packet from\&.
209 \fB\-o\fR \fIconfigoption\fR
211 See the "\fBCONFIGURATION OVERRIDE\fR" section in
216 The noop service is easy to execute because it does not require a REQ packet:
218 amservice hostname bsdtcp noop < /dev/null.fi
220 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\&.
222 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\&.
225 The exit code of \fBamservice\fR is one of:
228 1 = error executing amandad on the client\&.
233 doesn\'t parse the REP packet, it can only detect failures in executing amandad on the client\&.
235 can exit with value 0 even if the user is not authorized to execute the service\&. An error message will be printed\&.
244 \fBJean\-Louis Martineau\fR <\&martineau@zmanda\&.com\&>
246 Zmanda, Inc\&. (\FChttp://www\&.zmanda\&.com\F[])