On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:29:43PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:

I'm testing out the client update feature. Here's my experience so far:

1. I read the directions, and prepared a client tarfile and placed it (hobbitclient-420.tar) in the download directory.
2. I added the following to my client-local.cfg: [linux] log:/var/log/messages:10240 ignore MARK

• clientversion:hobbitclient-420*

3. I waited awhile (30+ mins) for the clients to update.

It can take a while:

• hobbitd re-loads the client-local.cfg file every 10 minutes. So worst case, it will take 10 minutes for the change to take effect. You can force this by doing a "kill -HUP <hobbitd-pid>".
• The client needs to contact the server to pick up the new config. If the timing is bad, that might not happen until 5 minutes after the client-local.cfg change was loaded. So now 15 minutes have passed.
• If you're running the clients via the hobbitfetch/msgcache pull-style connection, there's an additional 5 minute delay due to the extra hop between the server and the client.
• After the update, it will be another 5 minutes before the client runs again and you can see the change.

So all in all, it takes between 5 and 25 minutes.

4. When I click the info column on some clients, it shows: *Client S/W:hobbitcli* Is it supposed to be truncated like that?

No, it looks like you upgraded the client software from one of the beta/RC versions. They did truncate the clientversion string to 9 characters max.

Does this indicate that the new client is running? Yes. The next time you update, it should show the full version string.

Is there any other way to verify the client version?

Add a "file" check to one of the updated files, perhaps with an md5 hash check to be 100% sure it's the new version.

Regards, Henrik