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Re: [hobbit] Debugging issues with bb-histlog.sh on 4.3.0



On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Alan Sparks <asparks (at) doublesparks.net>wrote:

> T.J. Yang wrote:
> > I am experiencing same problem but it is on a  4.2.0 server.
> > If you like, we can work together to debug this issue.
> > This bug is listed on my hobbit deployment todo list .
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "Alan Sparks" <asparks (at) doublesparks.net>
> >> I've some "random" failures on bb-histlog.sh, viewing items in the bb2
> >> event log.  Some work as expected, but some when clicked appear to do
> >> nothing.  Hitting the URL for that (say
> >>
> http://den2sch17/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=den1ws063&SERVICE=nfs&TIMEBUF=Mon_Jun_22_18:46:39_2009
> )
> >>
> >> with curl shows a zero-length reply.  Checking the Apache error log
> >> shows "Premature end of script headers: bb-histlog.sh, referer:
> >> http://den2sch17/hobbit/bb2.html";.  I have found no core files left
> >> behind.
> >>
> Well, I have mixed luck running under GDB... looking at the code, saw it
> was trying to get the CGI info from the environment so set some
> environment variables to fake up enough CGI environment to get it to
> run.  But mostly wound up getting segfaults in expand_env on the
> HTMLCONTENTTYPE stuff.
>
> But I stumbled upon something that fixed my problem -- but not sure
> why.  I edited the cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh file, and added
> "cd /tmp" before the meat of the script.  For some reason, I now seem to
> have no issues.


Perhaps that ought to be "cd $BBTMP" instead??  Keep all Xymon stuff in one
place.

Ralph Mitchell