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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hi all,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I am clearly</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> missing something basic here but I can't figure out what it is and I can't find anything that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">looks like</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">my</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> problem in the archives.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have written a script that should be run on the Xymon server. It does an LDAP</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">update on my LDAP master server, waits ten seconds then checks that this value has been replicated to all the other LDAP servers.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The script is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">/opt/hobbit/server</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">/ext/</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ldap_check_replication</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and when run as the Hobbit user like so:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">$</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">server/bin/bbcmd server/ext/ldap_check_replication</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">it runs fine and the web pages are updated.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The problem is in getting it to be run by the Xymon server.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> I created an entry in the hobbitlaunch.cfg file as that seemed to be the right place to put it, I created the following entry:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">----</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"># "replicate_ldap" runs the in-house LDAP replication checks.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">[replicate_ldap]</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> CMD /opt/hobbit/server/ext/ldap_check_replication</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/replicate_ldap.log</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> INTERVAL 5m</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">----</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">But it refuses to run and nothing is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">mentioned in any log files anywhere!</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I would appreciate your input.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">|\/|artin</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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