Henrik- no trouble at all. That's why it's a release CANDIDATE-- and why we're willing to put up with issues like this for the sake of making a REALLY great product. There's no way you would find all these little issues without people like us willing to play around and put it through its paces.

And yeah, it got my attention. And my boss's. And my sysadmin. And the pager company who stopped accepting emails after the first 20 or so.

That's what we do. :-)

Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 12:37 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] A funny thing happened on the way to the RC...............

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:48:08PM -0500, Brodie, Kent wrote:

Fired up BB. Then, everyone's pager went NUTS. 100 pages, times 4 pagers. WHOOOOPS. The entire world had uh..... "lost connectivity."

What had really happened of course is, that the hobbit userid couldn't run fping, since I had forgotten to suid the executable. And yes, I did eventually find it in a log file, but... But, this had the very nasty side effect of turning each and every connectivity icon RED. And then the alerts kicked in..... And four Duracell batteries died.

Well, at least Hobbit managed to get your attention that there was some configuration problem :-)

Seriously - you're right, it shouldn't do that. Such a problem should end up with a red status in the "bbtest" column and nothing else. I'll make sure it does that.

Sorry about the trouble!

Regards, Henrik

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