Henrik,

If you have the bbstatus task enabled, does it write the values it recieves to a file, and then the next time data arrives, overwrite the info in the file, or does it append to the file?

I would like to capture some data that comes in every 1 or 2 seconds

Thanks, Jeff

On 5/10/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:49:39PM -0000, Sigurður Bjarnason wrote:

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In the old days when I was using the Big Brother monitoring server I always got some files to the /data/logs directory.

That was the Big Brother way of storing data. Hobbit keeps all of the current status logs in memory - unless you explicitly ask it to store them on disk by running the hobbitd_filestore module.

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Since I begun to use Hobbit I have never seen any files there.... Witch is causing me some trouble on custom made script I wrote when using Big Brother, then I got files to this directory, example file1 and file2 and I could compare the two, now ..I just get files to /data/hist and histlogs with timestamp in the name and that files I cannot use..!

Either enable the [bbstatus] task in your hobbitlaunch.cfg file - this causes the data/logs/ directory to be updated with the current status logs like BB; or change your script to fetch the status messages you need. I would recommend changing your script ...

To grab a status log from Hobbit, use the command bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdlog host=HOSTNAME test=COLUMNNAME" The first line of the output is a summary line, after which comes the raw status log.

Regards, Henrik

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