My hobbit install is fairly simple. One main server, and all clients reporting to that server. Recently I moved the main hobbit server. Thought it was going to be an easy move, and it turned out to be alot easier than I expected. Just a change to the HOBBITSERVERS in /etc/defualt/hobbit-client was all I realy needed to do to clients. But during the process I ran into 2 issues on the serverside. One was my fault..

1 - In hobbitserver.cfg I changed BBSERVERHOSTNAME to reflect the new host, but forgot about the IP address (BBSERVERIP). The bbd/bbgen/bbtest/hobbitd tests kept showing up under the old host (the host was still active and a client). I was expecting the tests just to disappear or appear under the new system host since the hostname was correct.

2 - trimhistory didn't quite work as expected. I kept getting this error:

./trimhistory --cutoff=date +%s --date="1 Sep 2006"

2006-09-22 17:05:15 Cannot cd to history directory: No such file or directory

But running it from bbcmd worked.

Matthew Davis http://familycampground.org/matthew/