I am trying to install hobbit in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 server. I talked earlier with Red Hat and they say that they don't support rpm which are not downloaded from the Red Hat network.
Well, no problem, I prefer not to call them about it that not to run hobbit since it is extremely useful for me.
Anyhow, I had installed it in a virtual machine running fc5 and it was quite easy to install. I am just starting as a Linux administrator, and even I had administered Windows servers for years, the switch is not so easy. I like Linux and I am quite excited to get the most of it, but sometimes I stumble around, just like at this moment, so here go a couple of my silly questions:
For security reasons I should not run hobbit as root. I understand that, but should I run the installation as root, or as hobbit?
Which would be the best folder for installation? I know this is a bit more open, but I would like the server to be kept clean, so I don't want to spread the installation everywhere I want it to make sense.
I think with just a little bit more of info I would be able to get a good installation going. Thanks in advance
David Hay Currie
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(302) 472-7854
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On 10/30/06, David Hay Currie <davidh at port.state.de.us> wrote:
I am trying to install hobbit in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 server. I talked earlier with Red Hat and they say that they don't support rpm which are not downloaded from the Red Hat network.
I run rhel3/rhel4 boxes and rebuild the rpm's provided from the sourceforge website. I rebuild the .src.rpm. There are a few dependencies not provided by RHN that I had to use the Dag repo for.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=1402... http://dag.wieers.com/apt/
For security reasons I should not run hobbit as root. I understand that, but should I run the installation as root, or as hobbit?
Run the processes as hobbit. The above RPMs will create the hobbit user (if it doesn't exist) and run the processes as the hobbit user.
Which would be the best folder for installation? I know this is a bit more
The one the rpm's use are decent enough to base your deployment from:
/usr/lib/hobbit /var/lib/hobb /etc/hobbit
Those are the main dirs used by the server and client rpms.
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From: "David Hay Currie" <davidh at port.state.de.us> Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Subject: [hobbit] Installing hobbit help Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:09:33 -0500
I am trying to install hobbit in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 server. I talked earlier with Red Hat and they say that they don't support rpm which are not downloaded from the Red Hat network.
Well, no problem, I prefer not to call them about it that not to run hobbit since it is extremely useful for me.
Anyhow, I had installed it in a virtual machine running fc5 and it was quite easy to install. I am just starting as a Linux administrator, and even I had administered Windows servers for years, the switch is not so easy. I like Linux and I am quite excited to get the most of it, but sometimes I stumble around, just like at this moment, so here go a couple of my silly questions:
welcome to join me for asking silly questions ;)
For security reasons I should not run hobbit as root. I understand that, but should I run the installation as root, or as hobbit?
Which would be the best folder for installation? I know this is a bit more open, but I would like the server to be kept clean, so I don't want to spread the installation everywhere I want it to make sense.
In my test setup, I have hobbit server running as hobbits user and client running as hobbitc. I also spilt the binary installation into /opt/hobbits and /opt/hobbitc to keep server and client binary coexist under /opt/hobbit(hobbit default is /opt/hobbit/server and /opt/server/client).
I think with just a little bit more of info I would be able to get a good installation going. Thanks in advance
I also packaged hobbit client for three OS(hp,solaris and rhlinux) and their versions. older OS like solaris 2.5/2.6 need works (kstat is not avaiable). HP-UX 10.20 need compilaton weak also.
David Hay Currie
Network Administrator
1 Hausel Rd. - Wilmington, DE 19801
(302) 472-7854
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Hi all,
I have an odd problem, hobbit is running (both server and client) on our main server but the odd thing is that the status' do not display at all (i.e. status not available screen) hobbit reports itself as running when doing hobbit.sh status but the below command indicates that there is a problem:
[root at svr-gbn-bbr-01 server]# bin/bb 127.0.0.1 hobbitdboard 2006-10-31 10:16:51 Could not connect to bbd at 127.0.0.1:1984 - Connection refused 2006-10-31 10:16:51 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed
I'm not sure why this has happened I was just trying to install Francesco's Hobbit-perl-notes program (but have removed everything to do with it to fix this problem first)...so ummm....help please :)
Thanks, Jason.
More information, though is unreadable to me personally:
bash-2.05b$ gdb bin/hobbitd tmp/core.7560 Core was generated by `hobbitd --pidfile=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.pid --restart=/usr/local/hobbit/serve'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0xb75ebc32 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (gdb) bt #0 0xb75ebc32 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #1 0xb74a1a09 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #2 0xb74a3235 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #3 0x08059e8e in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57 #4 <signal handler called> #5 0x0804a8c5 in posttochannel (channel=0x80807a8, channelmarker=0x805f120 "notes", msg=0xb70ec008 "notes gba-rhftp,gba,mentorg,com \n <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN>\n<HTML> <HEAD>\n <META NAME=GENERATOR CONTENT=Selfmade-cfg2html-linux version 1.37-2006/07/21 >\n <META NAME=AUTHOR CONTE"..., sender=0xbfff93c0 "137.202.205.54", hostname=0x806af78 "gba-rhftp.gba.mentorg.com", log=0x0, readymsg=0x0) at hobbitd.c:642 #6 0x0804be43 in handle_notes ( msg=0xb70ec008 "notes gba-rhftp,gba,mentorg,com \n <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN>\n<HTML> <HEAD>\n <META NAME=GENERATOR CONTENT=Selfmade-cfg2html-linux version 1.37-2006/07/21 >\n <META NAME=AUTHOR CONTE"..., sender=0xbfff93c0 "137.202.205.54", hostname=0x806af78 "gba-rhftp.gba.mentorg.com") at hobbitd.c:1290 #7 0x0804ebcd in do_message (msg=0x8076800, origin=0x805c39c "") at hobbitd.c:2542 #8 0x0805330a in main (argc=8, argv=0xbfffb734) at hobbitd.c:4351
Jason.
-----Original Message----- From: Jones, Jason (Altrincham) Sent: 31 October 2006 10:20 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] hobbit dead :S
Hi all,
I have an odd problem, hobbit is running (both server and client) on our main server but the odd thing is that the status' do not display at all (i.e. status not available screen) hobbit reports itself as running when doing hobbit.sh status but the below command indicates that there is a problem:
[root at svr-gbn-bbr-01 server]# bin/bb 127.0.0.1 hobbitdboard 2006-10-31 10:16:51 Could not connect to bbd at 127.0.0.1:1984 - Connection refused 2006-10-31 10:16:51 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed
I'm not sure why this has happened I was just trying to install Francesco's Hobbit-perl-notes program (but have removed everything to do with it to fix this problem first)...so ummm....help please :)
Thanks, Jason.
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Fixed, seems the MAXMSG_NOTES="4096" declaration caused the problem? - probably something I did wrong...anyway sorry for spamming the list and now I'm back to trying to get the notes thing to work :)
Jason.
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