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

Bruce Lysik blysik at shutterfly.com
Thu Jun 16 19:12:10 CEST 2005


> > (I added an ntp check which wasn't showing up, and after I 
> stopped hobbit I noticed a few 
> > spawned ntpdate processes sticking around.  Probably unrelated.)
> 
> No, it's quite possible that you've found the real problem.
> 
> Adding the ntp test causes bbtest-net to run "ntpdate". If 
> that command
> hangs, bbtest-net will stall waiting for it to complete. So if ntpdate
> never completes, your network tests will stop being updated because
> it is waiting forever for this command to complete.

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.

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Bruce Z. Lysik  <blysik at shutterfly.com>
Operations Engineer


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