ok, thank you for the explaination, i have a better picture of this.
but, im still puzzled with with a certain scenario :
i have several bb-hosts files,
and once, one guy (who didnt know how to use vi) emptied the bb-hosts
file without realizing..
that why i need of way to be alert of what hosts are disappearing
from bb-hosts
so i'll write a script to compare histlog and bb-hosts (thank you for
the tip).
Olivier
Le 31 juil. 05 à 10:04, Henrik Stoerner a écrit :
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:19:54PM +0200, Olivier Beau wrote:
when i comment an entry in my bb-hosts file, the host disappears from the display, which is normal.
i haven't done a "drop hostname" yet, and , i don't see any "unknown host" in my log files..
Hobbit does notice when you remove hosts from bb-hosts, and will automatically forget about hosts that disappear from bb-hosts. The "drop" command is only to clean up the files stored on disk (history logs and RRD files).
this brings me to the question : if someone deletes hosts in the
bb-hosts file, how do i know which hosts to "drop" ?I think it should be the other way around: When someone deletes hosts from your bb-hosts file, they should know to do a "drop" command also.
It doesn't do much harm if you don't do the "drop" command. Hobbit will simply ignore hosts that are not in the bb-hosts file, so they only take up a bit of space.
If you must know what "orphan" hosts you have lying around, compare the list of hostnames from your bb-hosts file with the directory names in ~hobbit/data/histlogs/
Henrik
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