[hobbit] upgrade to 4.0.4, barrage of purples forhttp/smtp/dns queries

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Fri Jul 15 08:28:36 CEST 2005


On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:25:30PM -0700, Bruce Lysik wrote:
> 
> > > That makes sense.  What options does hobbit use for ntpdate 
> > to check 
> > > an ntp server?  I want to run it by hand and see what happens.
> > 
> > ntpdate -u -q -p 2 HOSTNAME
> 
> Yes, that command just sits there.
> 
> Would it be possible to add some sort of timeout in bbtest-net where 
> if ntpdate doesn't return within an amount of time it will just kill it?

Thanks to the anonymous person who sent me Stevens' "Advanced
Programming in the Unix environment", this was a simple thing to do.
It's in the next version.


Regards,
Henrik




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