Hi Greg, The bb-hosts man page has a description of a "dialup" tag in the way that you are using it, in the section titled "Bbgen Display Options." But, there is also a later section called "Ping Test of Modembanks." It describes a directive of the form "dialup <hostname> <startIP> <count>." The idea is that you can do a ping test that goes clear instead of red, but for a range of IP addresses, instead of just one (and it appears the addresses do not need to have matching DNS entries). That is what I am trying to use. I'm not sure I have the syntax correct: can anyone out there using this explain where the dialup tag goes in relation to the page tag, etc?
- ms
Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
Mike,
I use "dialup" to flag a host that may or may not be there when I ping it. If the host is not accessible, the status is clear instead of red. Handy for test machines. This dates back to Big Brother. Could this be what you are trying to use?
GLH
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Serra [mailto:mserra at iwu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 9:03 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] dialup directive not implemented?
Hi Hobbit users, I have a simple question about the "dialup" directive in bb-hosts, the one that is supposed to come immediately after a page or subpage directive, and is used to ping a range of hosts, like a modem pool. Our sysadmin tells me that he read (in a man page online?) that this directive is not implemented. And it's acting like it isn't: we can't get it to do anything, despite trying every possible syntax that could make sense. But on the other hand people online talk about this as if they're using it just fine. So -- is it implemented? We are using hobbit version 4.2-beta-20060605. Thanks,
- Mike Serra
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