Tom Georgoulias wrote:
Upgraded to 4.0.2 this morning and while most everything went smoothly, a couple of things did not. Not sure if these two are related just yet.
ack:
Cannot acknowledge an alert using the cookie from either the subject line of the email alert or the command line (~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard host=secret.nandomedia.com test=conn fields=hostname,testname,cookie").
Strangely enough, it seems teh cookies are still being regenerated frequently, instead of remaining valid for 24 hours (like I thought the latest patch did).
[bb at radm202p ext]$ ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard host=secret.nandomedia.com test=conn fields=hostname,testname,cookie" secret.nandomedia.com|conn|402332 [bb at radm202p ext]$ ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdack 402332 30 using command line ack for 402332" [bb at radm202p ext]$ tail ~/data/acks/acklog [bb at radm202p ext]$ tail ~/log/hobbitd.log 2005-04-11 09:05:24 How did this happen? clients=0, s.sem_op=0 2005-04-11 09:05:34 Setup complete 2005-04-11 09:08:28 How did this happen? clients=0, s.sem_op=0 2005-04-11 09:08:38 Setup complete 2005-04-11 09:40:34 Cookie 87973 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:41:38 Cookie 587666 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:54:35 Cookie 587666 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:55:45 Cookie 873795 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:56:33 Cookie 873795 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 10:06:29 Cookie 402332 not found, dropping ack [bb at radm202p ext]$
Trying to disable the same system via the disable CGI didn't work either. The script stops at "Processing" and the system is not disabled.
This is what I see in /var/log/httpd/error_log
[Mon Apr 11 09:59:25 2005] [error] [client 10.1.1.20] [Mon Apr 11 09:59:25 2005] maint.pl: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /home/bb/cgi-secure/maint.pl line 222.
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My acks aren't working either. Not through ack menu pick or email reply's. I'm getting the same "maint.pl: Use of uninitialized value..." error, but the times don't correspond with my ack attempts. I do see the acks getting logged in the procmail.log file, but they're not ack'ing. This was happening before and after the 4.0.2 upgrade.
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:53:21PM -0500, Stuffle, David wrote:
My acks aren't working either. Not through ack menu pick or email reply's.
Ack's are broken in 4.0.2 - see patch I sent out a few minutes ago. (Or: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/hobbit-4.0.2-acknowledge.patch)
I'm getting the same "maint.pl: Use of uninitialized value..." error, but the times don't correspond with my ack attempts.
No, that's from the enable/disable script. I'm getting pretty fed up with maint.pl and Perl - it's on the "must rewrite" list now.
Henrik
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
I'm getting pretty fed up with maint.pl and Perl - it's on the "must rewrite" list now.
Would it be a safe assumption at this point to consider the DOWNTIME tag in bb-hosts to be the preferred workaround for disabling hosts, instead of using maint.pl?
Tom
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
I'm getting the same "maint.pl: Use of uninitialized value..." error, but the times don't correspond with my ack attempts.
No, that's from the enable/disable script. I'm getting pretty fed up with maint.pl and Perl - it's on the "must rewrite" list now.
I think I have a fix now, thanks to a more perl knowledgable co-worker. Try replacing the regular expressions for lines 217 and 222 in maint.pl with these:
if ($bbpagepath =~ /^([-_\/\@.]|\w)+$/)
if ($hostcookie =~ /^([-_\/\@.]|\w)+$/)
maint.pl is working for me now, but I haven't tested it extensively.
Tom
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:59:06PM -0400, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
I'm getting the same "maint.pl: Use of uninitialized value..." error, but the times don't correspond with my ack attempts.
No, that's from the enable/disable script. I'm getting pretty fed up with maint.pl and Perl - it's on the "must rewrite" list now.
I think I have a fix now, thanks to a more perl knowledgable co-worker. Try replacing the regular expressions for lines 217 and 222 in maint.pl with these:
if ($bbpagepath =~ /^([-_\/\@.]|\w)+$/)
if ($hostcookie =~ /^([-_\/\@.]|\w)+$/)
I must admit that I don't quite grasp the deeper logic behind this, but if you say it works, then fine with me.
Still, I do prefer to use code that I understand. So rewriting maint.pl is still on my agenda - first step was to implement a mechanism to schedule future enable/disable tasks in the Hobbit daemon, instead of having to use cron from a CGI script (that part of maint.pl has always worried me from a security perspective, and it's an area that is mildly incompatible between Unix systems). That is working now, so next step is to setup the webpage layout to use.
(For the curious among you: I've implemented a new "schedule" command in the Hobbit protocol, so you can do things like
bb 127.0.0.1 "schedule `date +%s --date='tomorrow 13:30'` disable www.foo.com.http 1h Network upgrade"But it isn't limited to just enable/disable, you can put any Hobbit command there - e.g. a command to drop a host at a certain time).
Henrik
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