Anything logged in the page.log file ? Is hobbitd_alert running at all ?

No, page.log hasn't been written to in months although the last entries in it were:

2007-09-27 22:44:29 Cannot open configuration file /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-alerts.cfg: No such file or directory 2007-09-27 22:50:38 Worker process died with exit code 0, terminating

Which seems to show that while I was setting Hobbit up last year I didn't have this file.

Hobbitd_alert isn't running and this is part of what is causing me issues as I can't find how it is started (this is where my ignorance shows through).

As a last resort, run hobbitd_alert with the "--debug" option and let me see what it says.

2008-06-26 08:52:15 Want msg 1, startpos 0, fillpos 0, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=266239 2008-06-26 08:53:15 No files modified, skipping reload of /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-alerts.cfg 2008-06-26 08:53:15 0 alerts to go 2008-06-26 08:53:15 Want msg 1, startpos 0, fillpos 0, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=266239 2008-06-26 08:54:15 No files modified, skipping reload of /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-alerts.cfg 2008-06-26 08:54:15 0 alerts to go 2008-06-26 08:54:15 Bad data in channel, skipping it 2008-06-26 08:54:15 Want msg 1, startpos 0, fillpos 0, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=266239 2008-06-26 08:55:15 No files modified, skipping reload of /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-alerts.cfg 2008-06-26 08:55:15 0 alerts to go 2008-06-26 08:55:15 Bad data in channel, skipping it 2008-06-26 08:55:15 Want msg 1, startpos 0, fillpos 0, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=266239 2008-06-26 08:56:15 No files modified, skipping reload of /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-alerts.cfg 2008-06-26 08:56:15 0 alerts to go

I started this run with the one possible alert set to green (so no alert was going to occur). At 08:54:00 I initiated the error event. This generates an extra debug entry:

2008-06-26 08:54:15 Bad data in channel, skipping it

But I have no idea what this means... :-(

|\/|artin

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