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[hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen
by iwrtech＠iwr.ru.ac.za 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

On 31 Jul 2008 , Manocchia, Robert entreated about "RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight na": > How about find a name so obscure in the Silmarillion that even the > lawyers couldn't find it. > > Seriously though, how about hobbiton. that is a placename. 'Hobbiton on Hogsback', about 100km from where I am (you can see the Hogsback mountains on a clear day), I've been there, and that is where Tolkien grew up, ergo 'Hobbit's in the book -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/

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Implement bb in perl
by joshua.gatcomb＠gmail.com 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Salutations, For an insane reason beyond my control, it would be advantageous to me to re-implement the bb client executable (send single message to Hobbit) in perl. I have looked at bb.c which includes libbbgen.h which includes sendmsg.h etc etc While I know I could eventually get through all the C, it would be easier for me if there was a design document explaining the client message format. Then using the man page on bb, I could just implement it from scratch. Does anyone know if alternatives to the compiled bb executable exist (preferrably one in perl)? Does anyone know if a design document that explains the message format or is the source the reference? Does anyone have any pointers for the best way to go through this exercise of insanity? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb

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[hobbit] Why the next Hobbit release hasn't happened yet
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

On Thursday 31 July 2008 18:02:39 Henrik Stoerner wrote: > It would obviously be good to have more people involved in the > programming. One roadblock for this has been that the source code has > not been available in a public repository. That is about to change; > I am working on setting up a Subversion repository for the Hobbit code > on SourceForge. I am currently testing a dump/import of the RCS modules > into Subversion, and if that looks to be OK I'll upload it to Sourceforge > tomorrow. So by Monday, this should be available to anyone who wants to > hack Hobbit. Documentation on how you use SVN (Subversion) on Sourceforge > is available at SF(3). Yay! I will definitely be checking hobbitmon out of svn, and may get around to some svn diff|mail ... Regards, Buchan

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[hobbit] Version of Hobbit y'all use?
by tleavitt＠unameits.com 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

I was able to resolve the /var/log/messages issue by following the instructions (with slight modifications) in the System Monitoring With Hobbit wikibook. My Hobbit is now happily reporting green (correctly) and clear (correctly) depending on the file being monitored. Now I simply have to figure out what I want it to monitor in that file, and if there are other files I want to monitor as well. :) Thomas -----Original Message----- From: Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:14 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Version of Hobbit y'all use? in sudoers, add a line like: hobbituser ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /path/to/fping or even easier, change fping to setuid root (chown root /path/to/fping; chmod 4755 /path/to/fping) =G= ________________________________________ From: Josh Luthman [josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:15 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Version of Hobbit y'all use? I am using 4.2.0 stable, no patches for the office network and 4.2.0 all-in-one patch at home. Here's what other people are using: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_hobbit_Users_list On both my servers I got complaints about /var/log/messages not being readable (red, IIRC). Can't explain why it didn't complain for you, sorry. I don't use sudo but I believe if you simply give the permissions of the "hobbit user" to read/execute /usr/sbin/fping you shouldn't have to worry about sudo when executing the command via Hobbitmon. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Thomas Leavitt <tleavitt at unameits.com<mailto:tleavitt at unameits.com>> wrote: Do y'all typically run the "stable" version of Hobbit, 4.2.0, downloaded from SourceForge, or do many of you run a more recent version? I noticed that a permission failure on /var/log/messages doesn't produce a "yellow" on my version. Anyone have proper SUDO settings that enable the hobbit server to run fping with no password, and the hobbit clients to read a root only readable /var/log/messages? Can you just run "fping" without putting "sudo" in front of the command, if you've got the proper settings in /etc/sudoers? Thomas To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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bb-nfs-client.sh, etc.
by tleavitt＠unameits.com 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

... if your ISP blocks these because the attachements have .sh extensions, then I can resend them to you, or figure out (next week) how to upload them to the Shire. Thomas

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[hobbit] bb-nfs-client.sh (script in ext)
by tleavitt＠unameits.com 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Note: I am NOT a master programmer. This could probably be done more elegantly by someone with a client. For instance, the reference to bbdef.sh can probably be deleted completely, and any remaining references to filesystem monitoring could also be purged. After three hours of amateur hacking to get it working, I didn't care about anything but that the thing reported correctly! Attached are two files. 1. bb-test-envs.sh, which basically takes the hobbitclient.cfg environment variables and puts them into a korn shell script that loads them into your shell environment so that you can test a script on the command line. 2. a modified version of the bb-nfs-client.sh from deadcat.net - all I've done is add three variables to the beginning (apparently not present in the standard Hobbit environment) so that the script would execute properly, and then rip out EVERYTHING that appears to be related to monitoring the size of NFS filesystems, since all I care about is whether they are available or not (script produced red icons when I took down our NFS appliance for maintenance the other day and the recovered to green when it went back up, so it appears to work). Not sure why it insisted on executing that code when the configuration bit in the original was defaulted to not monitor it, but oh well. I'd be happy to post these to the Shire at some point. I just don't have the time to figure that out (working 12-16 hours a day for the past few days) at this point. Hope this helps someone else get this working with less grief. Regards, Thomas Leavitt -----Original Message----- From: michael nemeth [mailto:michael.nemeth at lmco.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:56 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] bb-nfs-client.sh (script in ext) If its short enough why not post it here? Or maybe post it to the Shire? Thomas Leavitt wrote: > > For those who might care in the future: > > I got bb-nfs-client.sh working on RHEL/CentOS 4/5 (plus a couple of > Fedora and RH9 boxes) by ripping out everything related to monitoring > the size of NFS mounted filesystems, which I could care less about... > there's other code that does exactly that. I also had to add some > environment variables that were not getting properly set (BBHOME, > PING. BBOSTYPE), as far as I could tell. All I care about is whether > the NFS mounts are available and not producing errors. > > I'd be happy to share my stripped down version with anyone who cares > in the future, if so, send me an email a thomleavitt at gmail.com. > > Thomas > > *From:* Thomas Leavitt [mailto:tleavitt at unameits.com] > *Sent:* Friday, July 25, 2008 4:49 PM > *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk > *Subject:* [hobbit] bb-nfs-client.sh (script in ext) > > I'm trying to get this running, so that I can monitor the NFS status > of various hosts, and I'm getting the same error that everyone else > (except T.J. Yang on Solaris) seems to be getting... all the servers are > reported as being down. > > I'm also not seeing the "nfs" column appear in the Hobbit home page, > and when I click "history" by going directly to the NFS page (which > indicates that the script is at least executing, although it produces > no log file output), I get "Cannot open history file" as well. > > But, primarily, I'd just like to get this to work properly, first. I > can probably stumble through the process of debugging the script, but > if anyone else can clue me in, I'd appreciate it. > > Client is running CentOS 4.6, patched and up to date. > > This is my clientlaunch.cfg entry: > > [bb-nfs] > > ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg > > CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/bb-nfs-client.sh > > LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/bb-nfs-client.log > > INTERVAL 5m > > I've created a blank "bb-def.sh" and put it in the "etc" directory. > > Thanks in advance. > > Thomas > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen
by devzero＠cox.net 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Whatever amounts to the least amount of work for Henrik is perhaps best. How about calling it hmon or henrikmon? Or just call it hobbit :) Yeah, I know, hobbitmon is likely a good choice... Cheers, Tim If you trust wikipedia: 1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit_%28disambiguation%29 2)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit_%28word%29#Oxford.27s_position Hubbard, Greg L wrote: > > Okay, how about "Henrik's Most Excellent Server and Application and > Service Monitoring System with Many Contributions from the Shirefolk". > > Or "Henrik's Outstanding Big Brother Improvement Technologies" -- ( H. > O. B. B. I. T. ) > > Or ... (I had better stop here!) > > GLH > > *From:* T.J. Yang [mailto:tj_yang at hotmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:27 PM > *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk > *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name > change will happen > > I would suggest the new name should related the nature of system > monitoring more. > Make it easier to be understand the function of the software by just > reading its name. > > This is actually a good chance to make the name right. > > > T.J. Yang > > > > Time for vacation? WIN what you need. Enter Now! > <http://www.gowindowslive.com/summergiveaway/?ocid=tag_jlyhm>

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