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MRTG & Hobbit
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

This may not be directly Hobbit related, but... I get the message "Time stamp in log is on the future !" on each of my MRTG pages. I was not getting this when running bigbrother, so I'm wondering what would cause this or if there is something I can do to keep that from appearing. MRTG is working fine, just this annoying message. Thanks, Michael

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Windows Client
by slambert＠lambertsolutions.com 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Hello all, I'm trying to create a hobbit client for windows. Can someone tell me how the info is to be sent? Possibly a format. Should it be sent via a file or straight connection. Any ideas would be great. Thanks, Stew P.S. I know this has been said before, but.. Many, Many, Many THANKS for all your work Henrik

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[hobbit] acks & maint.pl aren't working
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Tom Georgoulias wrote: > Upgraded to 4.0.2 this morning and while most everything > went smoothly, a couple of things did not. Not sure if > these two are > related just yet. > > ack: > > Cannot acknowledge an alert using the cookie from either > the subject line of the email alert or the command line > (~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard > host=secret.nandomedia.com test=conn > fields=hostname,testname,cookie"). > > Strangely enough, it seems teh cookies are still being > regenerated frequently, instead of remaining valid for 24 > hours (like I > thought the > latest patch did). > > [bb at radm202p ext]$ ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard > host=secret.nandomedia.com test=conn > fields=hostname,testname,cookie" > secret.nandomedia.com|conn|402332 [bb at radm202p ext]$ > ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdack 402332 30 using > command line ack for 402332" > [bb at radm202p ext]$ tail ~/data/acks/acklog > [bb at radm202p ext]$ tail ~/log/hobbitd.log > 2005-04-11 09:05:24 How did this happen? clients=0, > s.sem_op=0 2005-04-11 09:05:34 Setup complete 2005-04-11 > 09:08:28 How did this happen? clients=0, s.sem_op=0 > 2005-04-11 09:08:38 Setup complete 2005-04-11 09:40:34 > Cookie 87973 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:41:38 > Cookie 587666 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:54:35 > Cookie 587666 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:55:45 > Cookie 873795 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:56:33 > Cookie 873795 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 10:06:29 > Cookie 402332 not found, dropping ack [bb at radm202p ext]$ > > Trying to disable the same system via the disable CGI > didn't work either. The script stops at "Processing" and > the system is > not disabled. > > This is what I see in /var/log/httpd/error_log > > [Mon Apr 11 09:59:25 2005] [error] [client 10.1.1.20] > [Mon Apr 11 09:59:25 2005] maint.pl: Use of uninitialized > value in pattern match (m//) at > /home/bb/cgi-secure/maint.pl line 222. > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk My acks aren't working either. Not through ack menu pick or email reply's. I'm getting the same "maint.pl: Use of uninitialized value..." error, but the times don't correspond with my ack attempts. I do see the acks getting logged in the procmail.log file, but they're not ack'ing. This was happening before and after the 4.0.2 upgrade. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Stuffle Delta Faucet Company This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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[hobbit] MRTG & Hobbit
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Great! Thanks for taking the time to look at that for me! Michael -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:51 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] MRTG & Hobbit In <40534FFD21F8E9428DD8CCF2B60B09EC6E91FE at atlitdc01.atg.local> "Lowery, Michael" <mlowery at alliedtechgroup.com> writes: >Bbmrtg.sh has this in it, but I don't know how to determine what it's >doing and why it's reporting the error. > > timenow=`$BBHOME/bin/touchtime -e` > timediff=`echo "$lasttimestamp $timenow" | $AWK '{ print $2 - $1}'` [snip] > if [ "$timediff" -gt 0 ] > then [cut] > else > ERRMSG="Time stamp in log is on the future !" > fi I suspect this may happen if you run bbmrtg with BBHOME pointing to the Hobbit installation - because the "touchtime" utility does not exist. So you get "timediff" to be negative from the awk command. If you have GNU date installed, I'd just replace that line with timenow=`date +%s` and see if that resolves it. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] MRTG & Hobbit
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Bbmrtg.sh has this in it, but I don't know how to determine what it's doing and why it's reporting the error. # If MRTG hasn't updated the file in $BBSLEEP seconds then # don't do anything as to possibly have BBDISPLAY generate a purple # status at one point if MRTG doesn't update the log in 30 minutes. timenow=`$BBHOME/bin/touchtime -e` timediff=`echo "$lasttimestamp $timenow" | $AWK '{ print $2 - $1 }'` if [ "$timediff" -gt 0 ] then # Do we have a stale MRTG .log file ? No update ... # Will provoke a purple after a while if [ "$timediff" -gt "$MRTGSTALESECS" -a "$PURPLECHECK" = "TRUE" ] then continue fi ERRMSG="" if [ "$currin" -ge "$redlevelinmax" -o "$currout" -ge "$redleveloutmax" ] then COLOR="red" elif [ "$currin" -lt "$redlevelinmin" -o "$currout" -lt "$redleveloutmin" ] then COLOR="red" elif [ "$currin" -ge "$yellowlevelinmax" -o "$currout" -ge "$yellowleveloutmax" ] then COLOR="yellow" elif [ "$currin" -lt "$yellowlevelinmin" -o "$currout" -lt "$yellowleveloutmin" ] then COLOR="yellow" if [ "$timediff" -gt 0 ] then # Do we have a stale MRTG .log file ? No update ... # Will provoke a purple after a while if [ "$timediff" -gt "$MRTGSTALESECS" -a "$PURPLECHECK" = "TRUE" ] then continue fi ERRMSG="" if [ "$currin" -ge "$redlevelinmax" -o "$currout" -ge "$redleveloutmax" ] then COLOR="red" elif [ "$currin" -lt "$redlevelinmin" -o "$currout" -lt "$redleveloutmin" ] then COLOR="red" elif [ "$currin" -ge "$yellowlevelinmax" -o "$currout" -ge "$yellowleveloutmax" ] then COLOR="yellow" elif [ "$currin" -lt "$yellowlevelinmin" -o "$currout" -lt "$yellowleveloutmin" ] then COLOR="yellow" fi else ERRMSG="Time stamp in log is on the future !" fi rm -f $BBTMP/BBMRTG.$$ -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:18 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] MRTG & Hobbit On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:11:16AM -0500, Lowery, Michael wrote: > This may not be directly Hobbit related, but... > > I get the message "Time stamp in log is on the future !" on each of my > MRTG pages. I was not getting this when running bigbrother, so I'm > wondering what would cause this or if there is something I can do to > keep that from appearing. MRTG is working fine, just this annoying > message. No idea, really. It would have been nice to know *which* logfile holds this futuristic timestamp. Any mention of that ? Any output from the mrtg cron-job ? Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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acks & maint.pl aren't working
by tgeorgoulias＠mcclatchy.com 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Upgraded to 4.0.2 this morning and while most everything went smoothly, a couple of things did not. Not sure if these two are related just yet. ack: Cannot acknowledge an alert using the cookie from either the subject line of the email alert or the command line (~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard host=secret.nandomedia.com test=conn fields=hostname,testname,cookie"). Strangely enough, it seems teh cookies are still being regenerated frequently, instead of remaining valid for 24 hours (like I thought the latest patch did). [bb at radm202p ext]$ ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard host=secret.nandomedia.com test=conn fields=hostname,testname,cookie" secret.nandomedia.com|conn|402332 [bb at radm202p ext]$ ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdack 402332 30 using command line ack for 402332" [bb at radm202p ext]$ tail ~/data/acks/acklog [bb at radm202p ext]$ tail ~/log/hobbitd.log 2005-04-11 09:05:24 How did this happen? clients=0, s.sem_op=0 2005-04-11 09:05:34 Setup complete 2005-04-11 09:08:28 How did this happen? clients=0, s.sem_op=0 2005-04-11 09:08:38 Setup complete 2005-04-11 09:40:34 Cookie 87973 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:41:38 Cookie 587666 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:54:35 Cookie 587666 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:55:45 Cookie 873795 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:56:33 Cookie 873795 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 10:06:29 Cookie 402332 not found, dropping ack [bb at radm202p ext]$ Trying to disable the same system via the disable CGI didn't work either. The script stops at "Processing" and the system is not disabled. This is what I see in /var/log/httpd/error_log [Mon Apr 11 09:59:25 2005] [error] [client 10.1.1.20] [Mon Apr 11 09:59:25 2005] maint.pl: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /home/bb/cgi-secure/maint.pl line 222.

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hobbit & larrd
by jonbjorn＠hi.is 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Hi hobbits. Is it possible to have larrd display weekdays in other languages ? -- Jon Bjorn Njalsson <jonbjorn at hi.is>

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[hobbit] Cpu-test going blue instead of red or yellow 4.0.2
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > What's the DOWNTIME setting for that host ? It's the only way it can go blue if you are not disabling it. Of course you are right, but why is it going green? There was a DOWNTIME. /Lars Hobbithobbyist "If you run UNIX and you don't have a UPS, you should see a psychiatrist...." --Byte Magazine (years ago)

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Cpu-test going blue instead of red or yellow 4.0.2
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist "If you run UNIX and you don't have a UPS, you should see a psychiatrist...." --Byte Magazine (years ago)

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RRS Feed says No Critical Alerts
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Hi I use KNewsTicker to look at my RSS Feed from bigbrother and it always says 'No Critical Error' even when I have 'red' alerts. But when I click on the Feed link I can access the bigbrother site and can see the alerts. I am using bbgen like this in my bbdisplay section CMD bbgen --hobbitd --recentgifs --pagetitle-links --maxrows=12 --pagetext-headings --no-underline-headings --ignorecolumns=maint,scanmsg --subpagecolumns =2 --report --rss --rsslimit=yellow Also I noticed the Feedlink is pointing at https://hobbit.site.net/hobbit/bb.rss and when I click it it takes me to the default /hobbit/ page. Thanks for any help/suggestions -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu "..there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit...try to be in the first group;...less competition there." - Indira Gandhi

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