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RC4 Index not creating
by ajeffco＠orhs.org 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Ok. After doing a fresh install of RC4 last night, and having the problem of it not creating an index.html in ~/server/www, I re-installed it again. It does the same thing. It does not create an index.html in ~/server/www. Also, after some amount of time (I'm still trying to track it down) all the hobbit processes stop. But, it does not create a core file, it doesn't give me any messages in my error log, nothing. And again, during the install, it didn't give me an option of a logging directory, is this intended? Al Jeffcoat IBM Certified Support Specialist, AIX Enterprise Storage Administrator System Programmer II (321)843-1051 ajeffco at orhs.org This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandoregional.org . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Regional Healthcare by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Regional Healthcare.

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nwstats2bb external going purple every 30
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Hi all, I'm using the nwstats2bb external to monitor my Novell servers. It's going purple about every 30 minutes and then back to green in 1-2 minutes. It was working fine under the old BB. Is anyone else running this external script? Here is what I put in hobbitlaunch.cfg: [nwstats2bb] ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/nwstats2bb.ini NEEDS hobbitd CMD $BBHOME/ext/nwstats2bb_wrap.sh LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/nwstats2bb.log INTERVAL 5m The nwstats2bb_wrap.sh is this: #!/bin/sh bbhostgrep nwstats|while read line do set -- $line # echo $BBHOME/ext/nwstats2bb.pl $2 $1 & $BBHOME/ext/nwstats2bb.pl $2 $1 & done exit 1 The hobbitlaunch.log file shows this: 2005-02-28 08:00:25 Task nwstats2bb terminated, status 1 2005-02-28 08:05:26 Task nwstats2bb started with PID 31694 2005-02-28 08:05:27 Task nwstats2bb terminated, status 1 2005-02-28 08:15:30 Task nwstats2bb started with PID 31906 2005-02-28 08:15:31 Task nwstats2bb terminated, status 1 2005-02-28 08:20:31 Task nwstats2bb started with PID 32167 2005-02-28 08:20:31 Task nwstats2bb terminated, status 1 2005-02-28 08:25:35 Task nwstats2bb started with PID 32396 2005-02-28 08:25:36 Task nwstats2bb terminated, status 1 2005-02-28 08:30:36 Task nwstats2bb started with PID 32600 2005-02-28 08:30:37 Task nwstats2bb terminated, status 1 2005-02-28 08:35:36 Task nwstats2bb started with PID 341 2005-02-28 08:35:36 Task nwstats2bb terminated, status 1 2005-02-28 08:40:36 Task nwstats2bb started with PID 550 2005-02-28 08:40:36 Task nwstats2bb terminated, status 1 2005-02-28 08:50:40 Task nwstats2bb started with PID 796 2005-02-28 08:50:41 Task nwstats2bb terminated, status 1 2005-02-28 08:55:40 Task nwstats2bb started with PID 1066 2005-02-28 08:55:40 Task nwstats2bb terminated, status 1 Thanks David Stuffle 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 4.0 RC4 available
by henrik＠hswn.dk 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

OK, so RC3 was slightly disastrous, and lots of patches have been flying around this past week. So to get everyone aligned on the same code-base, I've packaged up release candidate #4 which you'll find in the usual places: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/ and http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ This of course fixes the bugs that caused RC3 to crash left and right. I also have gone over the alert code again, and now believe that it has reached a state of Nirvana where it is "obviously correct". In other words, alerts should go out as intended; if they don't then add the "--trace=FILENAME" option to hobbitd_alert and let me have the logfile after you've re-created the problem. The flickering purples for disabled tests should be a thing of the past. Several problems with building on various platforms were resolved. As part of this change, you must re-run the configure script to have it pickup a couple of new settings that have been added. Along the way, I found out that I'd made a slight error of judgment in choosing the format of the hobbitlaunch.cfg file. So that has changed! If you have modified your hobbitlaunch.cfg - especially if you have deleted or commented out sections - I strongly advise you to copy the new file over from hobbit-4.0-RC4/etcfiles/, or at least look over the differences between that file and your current configuration. "make install" will not overwrite the file, but it might re-add sections that you have removed; instead of removing them or commenting them out, add the keyword "DISABLED" to make them permanenly disabled. Also, the hobbitserver.cfg file didn't quote the commands added for BB client scripts, resulting in errors being logged by some of the reporting CGI scripts. So copy over the new hobbitserver.cfg file that is generated in hobbitd/etcfiles/ when you build hobbit. Full list of changes below. Regards, Henrik Changes from RC-3 -> RC-4 ------------------------- Bugfixes: * Loading the bb-services file no longer causes bbtest-net, hobbitd_larrd et al to crash. * The alert configuration loader was fixed, so that recipient criteria are applied correctly. * hobbitd_alert handling of "recovered" status messages was slightly broken. This was probably the cause of the unexpected "green" alerts that some have reported. * SCRIPT recipients can now have a "@" in their names without being silently treated as MAIL recipients. * An acknowledge message is now cleared when the status changes to an OK color (defined by the --okcolors option). Previously it would have to go "green" before the ack was cleared. * Acked and disabled statuses can not go purple while the acknowledge or disable is valid. This was causing brief flickers of purple for tests that were disabled for more than 30 minutes. * maint.pl "combo" message support was dropped. This was causing runtime warnings, and it has never been possible to send enable or disable messages inside combo's (neither with Hobbit nor BB). Building Hobbit: * bb-infocolumn should build without problems again. * The "configure" script now also looks in /opt/csw for tools and libraries (for Solaris/x86) * An OpenBSD Makefile was contributed. * The gcc option "-Wl,--rpath" is now used when linking the tools on Linux and *BSD. This should resolve a lot of the issues with runtime libraries that cannot be found. * "configure" now looks for your perl utility, and adjusts the maint.pl script accordingly. * HP-UX does not have an atoll() routine. So a simple implementation of this routine was added. Configuration file changes: * hobbitlaunch.cfg now supports a DISABLED keyword to shut off unwanted tasks. This permits upgrading without having to re-disable stuff. * All commands in hobbitserver.cfg are now quoted, so it can be sourced by the CGI scripts without causing errors. Note that this is NOT automatically changed in an existing configuration file. Improvements: * The detailed status display now lets you define what graphs should be split onto multiple graph images (the "--multigraphs" option for bb-hostsvc.cgi and hobbitd_filestore). Currently the "disk", "inode" and "qtree" graphs are handled this way. * The detailed status display now includes a line showing how long an acknowledgment is valid. This is configurable via the ACKUNTILMSG setting in hobbitserver.cfg. * A new "notify" message is supported as part of the Hobbit protocol. This takes a normal hostname+testname paramater, plus a text message; this is sent out as an informational message using the hobbit-alerts.cfg rules to determine recipients. This replaces the BB "notify-admin" recipient with a more fine-grained and configurable system. Currently used by maint.pl when enabling and disabling tests. * Alert scripts now receive a CFID environment variable with the linenumber of the hobbit-alerts.cfg file that caused this alert to go out. * A new tool - hobbit-mailack - was added. If setup to run from e.g. the Hobbit users' .procmailrc file, you can acknowledge alerts by responding to an alert email. * Temperature reports now accept additional text in parenthesis without being confused. -- Henrik Storner

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pagesets with hobbit
by brianlynch＠gmail.com 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Has anyone ported their pagesets from BB to hobbit yet? I'm looking for the best place to set up the config that used to exist in bb-display.sh... I've done some heavy customization in BB using different headers, blocking services, etc. and I'm curious to see how it will fit in the hobbit framework cleanly. Any ideas?

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reports
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Is ther a way to have the availability report only report on a particular host...or group of hosts?...such as $HOSTGROUP1? This would be very nice. KEvin

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[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Henrik, Just to make sure I did it right, I put the patch in the hobbit-4.0-RC4 dir, did the following: patch -p0 <RC4-hobbitd_alert-crash.patch rm Makefile ./configure make make install Restarted hobbit, and now the hobbitd_alert went purple. I don't see any core files anymore. Are you seeing this same thing? Thanks, David Stuffle -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: 2/27/2005 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:34:13PM -0500, Stuffle, David wrote: > Hello, > I just upgraded to RC4. My hobbit server now has a hobbitd_alert column > that is red. It says "-Program crashed" - "Fatal signal caught!". Well, one of my own boxes just did the same thing, and it's pretty obvious what the problem was. The attached one-line fix should solve this. Henrik <<RC4-hobbitd_alert-crash.patch>> <<ATT88548.txt>> 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] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available
by ajeffco＠orhs.org 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Ok... I did a fresh install of RC4, and now, it does not generate an index.html in the web directory :) I also noticed that the step that asks for the log directory isn't there anymore, and it produces no logs, think the default was /var/log/hobbit. Al Jeffcoat IBM Certified Support Specialist, AIX Enterprise Storage Administrator System Programmer II (321)843-1051 ajeffco at orhs.org -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 5:29 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available In <6319AEF0FF0BC4488F10029776CEAC0705A3BA5D at MAIL01.orhs.org> "Jeffcoat, Al" <ajeffco at orhs.org> writes: >Can I just reconfig/make/install, and only copy over my bb-hosts, if >that's all I've modified? Yep, no problem. In fact, you don't need to install into a new directory; it's quite OK to install on top of your current setup. Just copy over the hobbitd/etcfiles/hobbitlaunch.cfg file then. >And to ALL, I've turned off the stupid "Read Reciept", sorry about that. Good idea :-) Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandoregional.org . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Regional Healthcare by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Regional Healthcare.

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[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available
by ajeffco＠orhs.org 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Can I just reconfig/make/install, and only copy over my bb-hosts, if that's all I've modified? And to ALL, I've turned off the stupid "Read Reciept", sorry about that. Al Jeffcoat -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 12:03 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk; hobbit-announce at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available OK, so RC3 was slightly disastrous, and lots of patches have been flying around this past week. So to get everyone aligned on the same code-base, I've packaged up release candidate #4 which you'll find in the usual places: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/ and http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ This of course fixes the bugs that caused RC3 to crash left and right. I also have gone over the alert code again, and now believe that it has reached a state of Nirvana where it is "obviously correct". In other words, alerts should go out as intended; if they don't then add the "--trace=FILENAME" option to hobbitd_alert and let me have the logfile after you've re-created the problem. The flickering purples for disabled tests should be a thing of the past. Several problems with building on various platforms were resolved. As part of this change, you must re-run the configure script to have it pickup a couple of new settings that have been added. Along the way, I found out that I'd made a slight error of judgment in choosing the format of the hobbitlaunch.cfg file. So that has changed! If you have modified your hobbitlaunch.cfg - especially if you have deleted or commented out sections - I strongly advise you to copy the new file over from hobbit-4.0-RC4/etcfiles/, or at least look over the differences between that file and your current configuration. "make install" will not overwrite the file, but it might re-add sections that you have removed; instead of removing them or commenting them out, add the keyword "DISABLED" to make them permanenly disabled. Also, the hobbitserver.cfg file didn't quote the commands added for BB client scripts, resulting in errors being logged by some of the reporting CGI scripts. So copy over the new hobbitserver.cfg file that is generated in hobbitd/etcfiles/ when you build hobbit. Full list of changes below. Regards, Henrik Changes from RC-3 -> RC-4 ------------------------- Bugfixes: * Loading the bb-services file no longer causes bbtest-net, hobbitd_larrd et al to crash. * The alert configuration loader was fixed, so that recipient criteria are applied correctly. * hobbitd_alert handling of "recovered" status messages was slightly broken. This was probably the cause of the unexpected "green" alerts that some have reported. * SCRIPT recipients can now have a "@" in their names without being silently treated as MAIL recipients. * An acknowledge message is now cleared when the status changes to an OK color (defined by the --okcolors option). Previously it would have to go "green" before the ack was cleared. * Acked and disabled statuses can not go purple while the acknowledge or disable is valid. This was causing brief flickers of purple for tests that were disabled for more than 30 minutes. * maint.pl "combo" message support was dropped. This was causing runtime warnings, and it has never been possible to send enable or disable messages inside combo's (neither with Hobbit nor BB). Building Hobbit: * bb-infocolumn should build without problems again. * The "configure" script now also looks in /opt/csw for tools and libraries (for Solaris/x86) * An OpenBSD Makefile was contributed. * The gcc option "-Wl,--rpath" is now used when linking the tools on Linux and *BSD. This should resolve a lot of the issues with runtime libraries that cannot be found. * "configure" now looks for your perl utility, and adjusts the maint.pl script accordingly. * HP-UX does not have an atoll() routine. So a simple implementation of this routine was added. Configuration file changes: * hobbitlaunch.cfg now supports a DISABLED keyword to shut off unwanted tasks. This permits upgrading without having to re-disable stuff. * All commands in hobbitserver.cfg are now quoted, so it can be sourced by the CGI scripts without causing errors. Note that this is NOT automatically changed in an existing configuration file. Improvements: * The detailed status display now lets you define what graphs should be split onto multiple graph images (the "--multigraphs" option for bb-hostsvc.cgi and hobbitd_filestore). Currently the "disk", "inode" and "qtree" graphs are handled this way. * The detailed status display now includes a line showing how long an acknowledgment is valid. This is configurable via the ACKUNTILMSG setting in hobbitserver.cfg. * A new "notify" message is supported as part of the Hobbit protocol. This takes a normal hostname+testname paramater, plus a text message; this is sent out as an informational message using the hobbit-alerts.cfg rules to determine recipients. This replaces the BB "notify-admin" recipient with a more fine-grained and configurable system. Currently used by maint.pl when enabling and disabling tests. * Alert scripts now receive a CFID environment variable with the linenumber of the hobbit-alerts.cfg file that caused this alert to go out. * A new tool - hobbit-mailack - was added. If setup to run from e.g. the Hobbit users' .procmailrc file, you can acknowledge alerts by responding to an alert email. * Temperature reports now accept additional text in parenthesis without being confused. -- Henrik Storner To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandoregional.org . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Regional Healthcare by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Regional Healthcare.

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[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Hello, I just upgraded to RC4. My hobbit server now has a hobbitd_alert column that is red. It says "-Program crashed" - "Fatal signal caught!". Don't know if it helps, but I enabled the tracing for hobbitd_alert and attached the log file. Also, a test that I had disabled before the upgrade is now showing purple on the main page, but is blue in the detailed status page. The new version did seem to fix all my Netware tests (using external script) from going purple every 30 minutes, and then back to green. Thanks, David Stuffle -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner To: hobbit at hswn.dk; hobbit-announce at hswn.dk Sent: 2/27/2005 12:03 PM Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available OK, so RC3 was slightly disastrous, and lots of patches have been flying around this past week. So to get everyone aligned on the same code-base, I've packaged up release candidate #4 which you'll find in the usual places: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/ and http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ This of course fixes the bugs that caused RC3 to crash left and right. I also have gone over the alert code again, and now believe that it has reached a state of Nirvana where it is "obviously correct". In other words, alerts should go out as intended; if they don't then add the "--trace=FILENAME" option to hobbitd_alert and let me have the logfile after you've re-created the problem. The flickering purples for disabled tests should be a thing of the past. Several problems with building on various platforms were resolved. As part of this change, you must re-run the configure script to have it pickup a couple of new settings that have been added. Along the way, I found out that I'd made a slight error of judgment in choosing the format of the hobbitlaunch.cfg file. So that has changed! If you have modified your hobbitlaunch.cfg - especially if you have deleted or commented out sections - I strongly advise you to copy the new file over from hobbit-4.0-RC4/etcfiles/, or at least look over the differences between that file and your current configuration. "make install" will not overwrite the file, but it might re-add sections that you have removed; instead of removing them or commenting them out, add the keyword "DISABLED" to make them permanenly disabled. Also, the hobbitserver.cfg file didn't quote the commands added for BB client scripts, resulting in errors being logged by some of the reporting CGI scripts. So copy over the new hobbitserver.cfg file that is generated in hobbitd/etcfiles/ when you build hobbit. Full list of changes below. Regards, Henrik Changes from RC-3 -> RC-4 ------------------------- Bugfixes: * Loading the bb-services file no longer causes bbtest-net, hobbitd_larrd et al to crash. * The alert configuration loader was fixed, so that recipient criteria are applied correctly. * hobbitd_alert handling of "recovered" status messages was slightly broken. This was probably the cause of the unexpected "green" alerts that some have reported. * SCRIPT recipients can now have a "@" in their names without being silently treated as MAIL recipients. * An acknowledge message is now cleared when the status changes to an OK color (defined by the --okcolors option). Previously it would have to go "green" before the ack was cleared. * Acked and disabled statuses can not go purple while the acknowledge or disable is valid. This was causing brief flickers of purple for tests that were disabled for more than 30 minutes. * maint.pl "combo" message support was dropped. This was causing runtime warnings, and it has never been possible to send enable or disable messages inside combo's (neither with Hobbit nor BB). Building Hobbit: * bb-infocolumn should build without problems again. * The "configure" script now also looks in /opt/csw for tools and libraries (for Solaris/x86) * An OpenBSD Makefile was contributed. * The gcc option "-Wl,--rpath" is now used when linking the tools on Linux and *BSD. This should resolve a lot of the issues with runtime libraries that cannot be found. * "configure" now looks for your perl utility, and adjusts the maint.pl script accordingly. * HP-UX does not have an atoll() routine. So a simple implementation of this routine was added. Configuration file changes: * hobbitlaunch.cfg now supports a DISABLED keyword to shut off unwanted tasks. This permits upgrading without having to re-disable stuff. * All commands in hobbitserver.cfg are now quoted, so it can be sourced by the CGI scripts without causing errors. Note that this is NOT automatically changed in an existing configuration file. Improvements: * The detailed status display now lets you define what graphs should be split onto multiple graph images (the "--multigraphs" option for bb-hostsvc.cgi and hobbitd_filestore). Currently the "disk", "inode" and "qtree" graphs are handled this way. * The detailed status display now includes a line showing how long an acknowledgment is valid. This is configurable via the ACKUNTILMSG setting in hobbitserver.cfg. * A new "notify" message is supported as part of the Hobbit protocol. This takes a normal hostname+testname paramater, plus a text message; this is sent out as an informational message using the hobbit-alerts.cfg rules to determine recipients. This replaces the BB "notify-admin" recipient with a more fine-grained and configurable system. Currently used by maint.pl when enabling and disabling tests. * Alert scripts now receive a CFID environment variable with the linenumber of the hobbit-alerts.cfg file that caused this alert to go out. * A new tool - hobbit-mailack - was added. If setup to run from e.g. the Hobbit users' .procmailrc file, you can acknowledge alerts by responding to an alert email. * Temperature reports now accept additional text in parenthesis without being confused. -- Henrik Storner To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk 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] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Looks like you were right.....sorry about that -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 4:18 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available Importance: Low On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:00:38PM -0500, Kevin Hanrahan wrote: > [root at nemesis hobbit-4.0-RC4]# su hobbit [hobbit at nemesis > hobbit-4.0-RC4]$ /home/hobbit/server/bin/starthobbit.sh > start > Hobbit must be started as the apache user Configuration error (you probably did as I said and ran "configure"). You must have answered "apache" to the question of What userid will be running Hobbit [hobbit] ? Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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