cups failed last week, now amanda

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 19:02 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Craig White wrote:
> >On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 11:56 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Mike Cloaked wrote:
> >> >Dave Feustel-2 wrote:
> >> >> Can you add a rule to your firewall that drops all IP6 traffic?
> >> >
> >> >Or if running bind then adding
> >> >OPTIONS="-4"
> >> >to /etc/sysconfig/named
> >> >will stop dns lookups for ipv6...
> >>
> >> I didn't even have bind installed, do now, set that option but no change.
> >> ===
> >> [root at coyote /]# su amanda -c "amcheck Daily"
> >> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> >> -----------------------------
> >> Holding disk /dumps: 359370752 kB disk space available, using 358858752 kB
> >> slot 5:read label `Dailys-5', date `20081109151648'.
> >> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> >> Tape Dailys-5 label ok
> >> Server check took 1.019 seconds
> >>
> >> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> >> --------------------------------
> >> WARNING: coyote: selfcheck request failed: timeout waiting for ACK
> >> Client check: 1 host checked in 30.035 seconds.  1 problem found.
> >>
> >> (brought to you by Amanda 2.6.2alpha-20081208)
> >> =====
> >> So I've removed it again.
> >
> >----
> >what have you done to make you believe that ipv6 is disabled?
> 
> I do not have any use for it, and ifcfg-eth0 says IPV6INIT=no.
> 
> >do you see any ipv6 addresses when you run ifconfig?
> 
> Yes:
> [root at coyote /]# ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1F:C6:62:FC:BB
>           inet addr:192.168.71.3  Bcast:192.168.71.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::21f:c6ff:fe62:fcbb/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:3568408 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:3418643 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:1742631779 (1.6 GiB)  TX bytes:1522706569 (1.4 GiB)
>           Interrupt:22
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:28900919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:28900919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:3294915014 (3.0 GiB)  TX bytes:3294915014 (3.0 GiB)
> 
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clearly that wouldn't work for your loopback adaptor...

try adding to /etc/modprobe.conf...

alias net-pf-10 off

and rebooting and that should shut off ipv6 everywhere

Craig