Hi Henrik,

--On 14. Dezember 2005 16:32:24 +0100 Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:26:01PM +0100, Andreas Dembach wrote:

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I'm running the 4.1.2.p1-1 .deb-package on a Debian Sarge box. After not getting any test results I realized that the bbtest-net daemon does not even start, but directly segfaults after startup. After playing around with strace I figured out that it has to do with the service definitions. After I moved /etc/hobbit/bb-services away, it starts perfectly, just complaining that it has to use internal defaults.

So the million dollar question is: What's in your bb-services file ?

Well, as I said, nothing too complex I guess, since it's the default file from the package. And even with the following file, it segfaults:

hobbit at linuxbox:~$ cat /etc/hobbit/bb-services service smtp send "mail\r\nquit\r\n" expect "220" options banner

hobbit at linuxbox:~$ bbtest-net --services --debug 2>&1 Command: bbtest-net '--services' '--debug' Environment BBLOCATION='' Environment CONNTEST='TRUE' Environment IPTEST_2_CLEAR_ON_FAILED_CONN='TRUE'

Service list dump

BBNETSVCS set to : smtp telnet ftp pop pop3 pop-3 ssh imap ssh1 ssh2 imap2 imap3 imap4 pop2 pop-2 nntp Service list dump

hobbit at linuxbox:~$ bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse Aborted (core dumped)

and the strace output of "strace bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse": ... open("/usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp/ftp..status", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp/telnet..status", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp/smtp..status", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=35, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40018000 read(3, "hostname.mydomain.de 37 11345640"..., 4096) = 35 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x40018000, 4096) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {SIG_DFL}, {0x4038f7a0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x401bb6f8}, 8) = 0 fork() = 25368 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- chdir("/usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp") = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0 kill(25366, SIGABRT) = 0 --- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGABRT (core dumped) +++

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Is this a known problem for the Debian package? Could this also have to do with our bb-hosts file that I copied from a BB 1.9c server?

No, I use the Debian packages myself and dont have this problem. I suspect there is something different in your bb-services file (it's flagged as a configuration file, so dpkg will not overwrite it with a default file if you have changed it locally). If you have a bb-services.dpkg-dist file, is it any different ?

No, it's a fresh install.

Regards, Andreas

Henrik

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Yes, that works.

I took the section below from the bb-services man page. Seems to be outdated, then.

Thanks a lot, Andreas

--On 14. Dezember 2005 17:10:25 +0100 Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:55:30PM +0100, Andreas Dembach wrote:

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So the million dollar question is: What's in your bb-services file ?

Well, as I said, nothing too complex I guess, since it's the default file from the package.

hobbit at linuxbox:~$ cat /etc/hobbit/bb-services service smtp send "mail\r\nquit\r\n" expect "220" options banner

That's not from the debian package, that is an old-style bbgen version of the bb-services file.

Try doing

mkdir tmpdir dpkg -x hobbit_4.1.2p1-1_i386.deb ./tmpdir/

This unpacks the .deb-file into the tmpdir directory. In tmpdir/etc/hobbit/bb-services you'll find the real file - I am sure that is different from what you have.

Specifically, the "service smtp" line is now "[smtp]".

Henrik

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Yes, true. There is still the old BigBrother intallation on this server, which also had the bbnet/bbgen tools.

Regards, Andreas

--On 14. Dezember 2005 17:58:04 +0100 Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:49:39PM +0100, Andreas Dembach wrote:

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Yes, that works.

I took the section below from the bb-services man page. Seems to be outdated, then.

Check you MANPATH setting. I'd guess you have some duplicate man-pages found in both /usr/local/man/ and /usr/share/man/ (e.g. the man5/bb-services.5 file).

The man-page from the debian package doesn't have that section you copied.

Regards, Henrik

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On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:50:17AM -0500, Wes Neal wrote:

How do you tell Hobbit to page or not page on purple messages?

This line I thought would do it, but the comment says that it isn't used by Hobbit.

hobbitserver.cfg:PAGELEVELS="red purple" # Status colors that trigger an alert. Used by 'bb' talking to bbd, not by Hobbit.

I want to turn pages for purple statuses off.

You need to look at these settings in hobbitserver.cfg:

ALERTCOLORS="red,yellow,purple" # Colors that may trigger an alert message OKCOLORS="green,blue,clear" # Colors that may trigger a recovery message

You can just remove the "purple" from the ALERTCOLORS setting.

Henrik

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:11:45PM -0500, Michael Nemeth wrote:

One of my http servers went down and the conn test went red and http and content went blue, this was fine with me and makes sense. When the server came up the conn test went green ; now the http remained blue but should have been red ; http wasn't brought up for over an hour.!

"blue" only happens if you have something like planned downtime. http should go "clear" when the entire server goes down and conn is red. This also matches your observation that http remained "blue" until it was brought up again.

Henrik

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 07:40:28AM -0500, Michael Nemeth wrote:

Happen again this week end. Another web server was taken down and brought up; HTTP was not started (we don't start it at boot time so that was right) and I found the server green and http blue.

Well, did you check if there's a DOWNTIME setting for this host ?

I'd like to see the bb-hosts entry for it. If you run network tests from a separate server, check the bb-hosts file on both the Hobbit and the network test server.

Henrik

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:27:22AM -0500, Wes Neal wrote:

Long ago I never got a response on this. Can anyone shed any light on it now possibly?

I do not want to receive any pages when a box goes purple for whatever reason.

Set ALERTCOLORS="red,yellow" in hobbitserver.cfg, then restart Hobbit.

Henrik