I fixed this by doing:

./bb 127.0.0.1 "drop <xymon server> hobbitd_alert"

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: xymon - hobbitd_alert Program crashed Fatal signal caught! From: Bill Wagner <william.wagner at ipacc.com> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Date: 8/18/2009 10:27 AM

I have xymon 4.2.3 server running on solaris 10. This is a new xymon install and I have been setting up the initial alerts and changing hobbit-clients.cfg and hobbit-alerts.cfg. Alerts are generally working as I intended. However, at some point, I also began getting the following alert:

Hobbit [398021] xymon:hobbitd_alert stopped reporting (PURPLE)

red - Program crashed

Fatal signal caught!

The hobbitd_alert process continues to run (see below) and alerts continue to be generated. I have backed out almost all my changes to hobbit-alerts.cfg so it is "bare bones". The crashes continue. Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this? I would enable debugging per the hobbitd_alert MAN page if I could determine how to do that.

thanks in advance, Bill

$ ptree 29939 29931 /export/home/xymon/server/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/export/home/xymon/server/e 29939 hobbitd_channel --channel=page --log=/var/log/xymon/page.log hobbitd_alert --ch 29943 hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=/export/home/xymon/server/tmp/alert.chk --check $