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debian client install errors
by dan.simoes＠gmail.com 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

I'm not sure if Henrik wants bug reports here, or privately. When installing the hobbit client under debian, it complains: Please configure HOBBITSERVERS in /etc/default/hobbit-client invoke-rc.d: initscript hobbit-client, action "start" failed /etc/default/hobbit-client says that HOBBITSERVERS is a predefined variable. It doesn't seem to be though. I'm not sure if the right action is to edit /etc/default/hobbit-client, or edit somewhere else. I can make this work, but I'm more concerned with making sure this gets fixed in the release. The same problem was present in the last beta.

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Solaris PCRE kludge still needed?
by greg.hubbard＠eds.com 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Team, I tried to compile 4.2 for the first time yesterday and got bit (again) by the problem with the Solaris linker not finding pcre. The workaround listed in the 4.1.whatever tips page still works (modify Makefile and remake) -- but should configure be updated to do this on its own? Or is the fact that there are multiple workarounds enough reason to leave things be? (By the way, Hobbit is not the only package where configure generates a Makefile that is 99 percent correct -- leaving the person installing the package to figure out where the 1 percent error might be...) I still love Hobbit! I guess a human being is still needed after all... GLH

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improvement request: favori.ico to a mark instead of a face
by jjj863＠gmail.com 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Currently the favori.ico has the red angry face if I have one RED and a few YELLOW, acknowledged or not. I'd appreciate if it can be a MARK in corresponding color instead. This is most helpful if one has the bb page tabbed in Firefox or alike. This way, one'd know all is or is being taken care of, w/o jumping to the page. Besides, it is more logically consistent.

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[hobbit] Enable/Disable propogation
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Enable/Disable looks to propagate ok, but I've just tried to ack an alert on my primary hobbit server -- and the ack did not propagate to the secondary server. This is 4.2.0 with all the (as of yesterday :-) patches, running with '--no-pin'. Question on BBDISPLAYS -- is this list supposed to be space delimited, comma-delimited, or does it not matter? Mine is space-delimited. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 3:41 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Enable/Disable propogation On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:12:17PM -0400, Epp, Matthew Contractor PEO EIS AKO wrote: > How does Hobbit handle the disabling of tests in a multi-DISPLAY server > environment? Typically in the legacy Big Brother environment, I had to > either disable test on each display server, or just tell people to ignore > alerts on the satellite DISPLAYs and only pay attention to the main server > where I would actually "blue" things out. Ultimately I would like to have an > accurate view on each DISPLAY, but this would involve somehow propogating a > disable command down the line. The Hobbit enable/disable tool sends the enable/disable commands to all of the servers listed in the BBDISPLAYS setting in hobbitserver.cfg. So if you have that setup in your config, it will automatically propagate to all of the servers. Note that when using multiple servers, it is recommended that you have the local server FIRST in the list of servers in BBDISPLAYS. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.

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[hobbit] RPM build errors?
by mike＠razorsedge.org 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us wrote: > When I do "./build/makerpm 4.2.0", I get the following errors > > RPM build errors: > File not found: /tmp/hobbit-root/usr/lib/hobbit/server/download > File listed twice: /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/clientupdate > File listed twice: /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/logfetch > File listed twice: /usr/lib/hobbit/client/ext > > I get the same error trying to rebuild the srpm as well "rpmbuild > --rebuild hobbit-4.2.0-1.src.rpm". What am I doing wrong? > You are not using the prebuild RPMs. ;-) http://rpm.razorsedge.org/ -- -m ... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrranize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. -- Voltarine de Cleyre

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Hobbit client, exempt disks?
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Erm, how do you exempt disks from being detected in the client? Its detected the network mount (a backup drive) as a disk and is logging it! I don't think I need that level of redundancy in detection. *smirk* Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support <http://www.geosoft.com/20> eosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com

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RPM build errors?
by Stewart_Larsen＠doh.state.fl.us 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

When I do "./build/makerpm 4.2.0", I get the following errors RPM build errors: File not found: /tmp/hobbit-root/usr/lib/hobbit/server/download File listed twice: /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/clientupdate File listed twice: /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/logfetch File listed twice: /usr/lib/hobbit/client/ext I get the same error trying to rebuild the srpm as well "rpmbuild --rebuild hobbit-4.2.0-1.src.rpm". What am I doing wrong? -- Stewart Larsen

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local client: Failed to get a message, terminating
by Dirk.Kastens＠uni-osnabrueck.de 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Hi, I just upgraded our hobbit server to 4.2.0 and installed a local client on a linux machine. Everything seems to work well, but every 5 minutes the client logs the following message in its hobbitclient.log: "Failed to get a message, terminating" What could be the cause of this message? P.S.: thanks, Henrik, for this great new release :-) -- Best wishes, Dirk Kastens

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[hobbit] Host Notes
by jonescr＠cisco.com 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Darn, it seems to be gone from the latest snapshot...I want it :-) Did you abandon or is it just on the backburner now? -Charles >Henrik wrote: >Can't hide anything from you, eh? It's "work in progress". >On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 02:49:44PM +0200, Frédéric Mangeant wrote: >> how are we supposed to use the hobbit-notesedit.sh CGI ?

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Webpage with patches for 4.2.0
by henrik＠hswn.dk 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Don't know if everyone is aware of it, but I maintain a webpage with a summary of the known issues in 4.2.0 that have been discussed here on the mailing list, and links to the patches that I have produced since the release. So the first place to go if you have problems with 4.2.0 is this page: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/patches/ There's also a link from the "Hobbit projects" menu on the demo-site. So far I am very pleased with the number of bug reports after the 4.2.0 release. There's been 385 downloads of that release from sourceforge until now, and with only 5 bugs reported it looks to be pretty good for a dot-oh release. So you've all done a good job with the pre-release testing. Regards, Henrik

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