On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:46:34AM -0400, Lee J. Imber wrote:
When I start hobbit I get a few hundred lines of the following in / var/log/hobbitd.log.
How do I remove this?
2006-06-15 14:45:05 Ignored PURPLE status update from 127.0.0.1 for <unknown>.unknown
That's odd.
The reason for the message is that Hobbit should never receive a status message with color PURPLE. The purple status is generated internally by the hobbitd daemon, so sending an explicit status update with color purple is not allowed.
The only reason I can think of is that you're running an older version of the bbgen utility. In the old days, when I was still using the BB package, purple updates were generated as a result of building the webpages - so running "bbgen" would trigger a stream of purple updates. But that should not happen with the current Hobbit-versions of bbgen.
The "<unknown>.unknown" means that the host- and testnames don't match anything Hobbit knows about.
If you cannot figure out where this comes from, you can try running hobbitd with the "--trace-all" option; this will cause hobbitd to log all incoming messages to files in the tmp/ directory. You shouldn't run with that enabled for very long, obviously.
Regards, Henrik