Testing in two separate hobbit environments. Both environments are able to process BB-PE traffic. Using Hobbit 4.11 server release and a simple client test file to transmit status to the servers (modified hobbitclient-linux.sh and hobbitclient-hpux.sh).

First environment using Mandrake 9.0 server and Fedora Core 2 client - client transmissions received and processed properly on server.

Second environment using Fedora Core 3 server and HP-UX 11i client, have problems with hobbitd_channel on server.

Initial error was: Worker process died with exit code 6, terminating

I reduced down the size of the HP-UX client message - no longer sending ps/top/vmstat output; still blowing up.

Commented out some of the signal handler lines and set to ignore some of the signals to drill into problem in the hobbitd_channel.c file. /* sigaction(SIGPIPE, &sa, NULL); */ signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN); /* sigaction(SIGINT, &sa, NULL); */ signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN); sigaction(SIGTERM, &sa, NULL); /* sigaction(SIGCHLD, &sa, NULL); */ signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);

Rerun, error message is now: Our child has failed and will not talk to us....

Guessing that may have a blocking problem - even though there is only the server and the one client using the channel, increased the sleep value.

else if (errno == EAGAIN) { /* * Write would block ... stop for now. * Wait just a little while before continuing, so we * dont do busy-waiting when the worker child is not * accepting more data. */ canwrite = 0; /* usleep(2500); */ usleep(25000)

Same error. Any ideas what to look into next?

Also, has anyone configured hobbit server to work with a number of HPUX clients? Looking to handle around 50 HPUX servers and 50 Windows servers into a single Hobbit server.