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NAME

       amservice - run an amanda service on a client

SYNOPSIS

       amservice hostname auth service [-f input_file] [{-o configoption}...]

DESCRIPTION

       Amservice execute an Amanda 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.

       See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.

OPTIONS

       hostname
           The hostname of the client.

       auth
           The auth to use, one of: bsd, bsdudp, bsdtcp, ssh, rsh or krb5. The
           client must be configured with this auth.

       service
           The amanda service to execute on the client. One of noop, selfcheck
           or sendsize.

       -f input_file
           Use the file input_file instead of stdin to read the REQ packet
           from.

       -o configoption
           See the "CONFIGURATION OVERRIDE" section in amanda(8).

EXAMPLE

       The noop service is easy to execute because it does not require a REQ
       packet:
       amservice hostname bsdtcp noop < /dev/null.fi

       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.

       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.

EXIT CODE

       The exit code of amservice is one of:
        0  = success
        1  = error executing amandad on the client.

       As amservice doesn´t parse the REP packet, it can only detect failures
       in executing amandad on the client.  amservice can exit with value 0
       even if the user is not authorized to execute the service. An error
       message will be printed.

SEE ALSO

       amanda(8), amanda(8), amcheck(8), amdump(8), amadmin(8)

       The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/

AUTHOR

       Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com>
           Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)