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cgi bb-hostedit script released
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Howdy all, I finally got my mrtg graphing problems fixed (I ended up just using mrtg to poll ifc traffic data, and tweaked hobbit-larrd a bit to work with my snmp data collector that collects cpu & error info). Anyways, now that that is done, I had a some time to spend working on a gui hosts editor for hobbit/bigbrother (although the bigbrother support has not been tested, as I dont really have a bigbrother system to test it on any more). This script should handle just about every option that the bb-hosts file supports, including nested file includes (include, dispinclude, etc), titles, groups, etc etc. Its still in a nascent phase at the moment, so I would strongly suggest backing up your host files somewhere safe before playing around with it (although the script also supports file archival, as well). You can download the script at: http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-1.0.tar.gz Please let me know what you think, Regards, -Eric Schwimmer HSCS Network Engineer University of Virginia

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Patch for do_sendmail.c for later sendmail releases
by gsteer＠firstwave.com.au 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

[I posted this earlier in the week but attached to another thread. Sending again in case it's of interest to others] In setting up the sendmail graphs, I found that some fields introduced in later sendmail versions were not logged/displayed. The attached patch to do_sendmail.c will allow the extra field introduced in sendmail 8.13.x to be graphed. It should still work with most earlier versions of sendmail back to at least 8.9.x (if you're running a version that old, it's time to upgrade!) As we only run 8.13.x in production, Testing with 8.11.x has been minimal. Regards Geoff Steer Firstwave Technology

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[hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Try this patch: http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-gedit-patch The distro has been updated also, so nobody that downloads it after this moment should need this patch. Regards, -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS Sent: Thu 4/28/2005 3:54 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released Dang. Looks like a forgot a subroutine. :) We don't use groups at all, so that isnt something I've tested. Give me a few minutes. e -----Original Message----- From: Daniel J McDonald [mailto:dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:09 PM To: Hobbit List Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:00 -0400, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote: > Outlook and I are not friends. Here's the patch. How about: Undefined subroutine &main::g_edit called at /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bb-hostedit.pl line 279. For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root at localhost), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Dang. Looks like a forgot a subroutine. :) We don't use groups at all, so that isnt something I've tested. Give me a few minutes. e -----Original Message----- From: Daniel J McDonald [mailto:dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:09 PM To: Hobbit List Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:00 -0400, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote: > Outlook and I are not friends. Here's the patch. How about: Undefined subroutine &main::g_edit called at /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bb-hostedit.pl line 279. For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root at localhost), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Outlook and I are not friends. Here's the patch. -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:52 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released Yep, it was a regexp problem. I had tested with single-word group names, but anything with a whitespace in it would fail the regexp check. Try the attached patch: copy the patch to your hobbit/server/bin dir, then chdir there: patch -p0 < bb-hostedit-groupname-patch I've already updated the distro, so anybody that downloads it in the future doesnt need to apply this patch (although I didnt update the version number, naughty naughty). -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dunne [mailto:dunne at accuweather.com] Sent: Thu 4/28/2005 1:34 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Subject: Re: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released On 4/28/05 1:28 PM, "Schwimmer, Eric E *HS" <EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu> wrote: > Hrm, the manpage for bb-hosts on the hobbit site says the the syntax > should be "group-compress". Apologies, the error includes the "-" between group and compress. > I've never used either one; do you have an entry called 'group > compress' that functions as you'd expect it to? An example from my host file is: group-compress <h3>Non-Production Servers </h3> > Regards, > -Eric Michael Dunne Systems Support Specialist AccuWeather, Inc. 814-237-0309 Ext. 7661 To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hrm, the hobbit bb-hosts man page is a little unclear on some of the test syntax. The only way that this syntax error would pop up was if the apache test was seperated from its host entry by a newline. Until now, I had assumed that all test tags pertaining to a host had to be on the same line (i.e. no newline seperation), but now I'm not sure. Can you send me the lines immediately previous to this one in your hosts file? Feel free to sanitize anything that might make you security conscious, I just need the general formatting. -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dunne [mailto:dunne at accuweather.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:30 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released Thanks for the quick patch. I've applied it and now I have the following error: Syntax error: apache=http://sysmonx.accuweather.com/server-status?auto Michael Dunne Systems Support Specialist AccuWeather, Inc. 814-237-0309 Ext. 7661 To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Yep, it was a regexp problem. I had tested with single-word group names, but anything with a whitespace in it would fail the regexp check. Try the attached patch: copy the patch to your hobbit/server/bin dir, then chdir there: patch -p0 < bb-hostedit-groupname-patch I've already updated the distro, so anybody that downloads it in the future doesnt need to apply this patch (although I didnt update the version number, naughty naughty). -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dunne [mailto:dunne at accuweather.com] Sent: Thu 4/28/2005 1:34 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Subject: Re: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released On 4/28/05 1:28 PM, "Schwimmer, Eric E *HS" <EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu> wrote: > Hrm, the manpage for bb-hosts on the hobbit site says the the syntax > should be "group-compress". Apologies, the error includes the "-" between group and compress. > I've never used either one; do you have an entry called 'group > compress' that functions as you'd expect > it to? An example from my host file is: group-compress <h3>Non-Production Servers </h3> > Regards, > -Eric Michael Dunne Systems Support Specialist AccuWeather, Inc. 814-237-0309 Ext. 7661 To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hrm, the manpage for bb-hosts on the hobbit site says the the syntax should be "group-compress". I've never used either one; do you have an entry called 'group compress' that functions as you'd expect it to? Regards, -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dunne [mailto:dunne at accuweather.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:20 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released Greetings, I installed your script per directions indicated in install file and I am receiving an error. The error is "syntax error: group compress". Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Mike Michael Dunne Systems Support Specialist AccuWeather, Inc. 814-237-0309 Ext. 7661 To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Probably a regexp failure on my part. I'll release a patch in a second... -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dunne [mailto:dunne at accuweather.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:20 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released Greetings, I installed your script per directions indicated in install file and I am receiving an error. The error is "syntax error: group compress". Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Mike Michael Dunne Systems Support Specialist AccuWeather, Inc. 814-237-0309 Ext. 7661 To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

A few caveats that I should have included with the distro but forgot: 1. While it supports nested files, and will attempt to preserve their structure as much as possible, I could only bundle so logic for determining what file a new host/page/title should be added to. So while it should work, it might not Do What You Expect(tm). 2. The script is comment un-friendly. Any comments & whitespace formatting is ignored when the script reads in data, and when it writes data back out, this commented data IS NOT INCLUDED. So if you have some sort of whacky comment structure in your files that you are intent on preserving, I'd advise you not to try this script :) Regards, -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:47 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released Howdy all, I finally got my mrtg graphing problems fixed (I ended up just using mrtg to poll ifc traffic data, and tweaked hobbit-larrd a bit to work with my snmp data collector that collects cpu & error info). Anyways, now that that is done, I had a some time to spend working on a gui hosts editor for hobbit/bigbrother (although the bigbrother support has not been tested, as I dont really have a bigbrother system to test it on any more). This script should handle just about every option that the bb-hosts file supports, including nested file includes (include, dispinclude, etc), titles, groups, etc etc. Its still in a nascent phase at the moment, so I would strongly suggest backing up your host files somewhere safe before playing around with it (although the script also supports file archival, as well). You can download the script at: http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-1.0.tar.gz Please let me know what you think, Regards, -Eric Schwimmer HSCS Network Engineer University of Virginia To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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