[hobbit] Feedback from running 4.1.1 snapshot on FreeBSD 5.4

[Andy France]

"Grilli, Laurent" wrote on 18/08/2005 10:39:45:

> Hi all,
>
> Few things that we notice :
>
> 1) Error during the make install
>
> cd etcfiles; ../../build/merge-lines hobbitcgi.cfg
> /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitcgi.cfg
> cd etcfiles; ../../build/merge-sects hobbitlaunch.cfg
> /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg larrdstatus=rrdstatus
> larrddata=rrddata
> merge-sects in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense
> Abort trap (core dumped)
> gmake[1]: *** [install-cfg] Error 134
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/software/hobbit-4.1.1/hobbitd'
> gmake: *** [install-hobbitd] Error 2
>
> Workaround :
> Change manualy the occurence of larrd to rrd in hobbitlaunch.cfg


Just as an addition to this, I had to do exactly the same thing when trying
to update 4.0.4 to 4.1.1 on my Solaris 9 x86 server.
I can't recall the exact error, but I did get a core dump too (probably
long since deleted :-)


> 2) bbhostgrep with the following tags:
>
> we have a lot of nokia appliance that we poll for snmp via the snmp
> script, the devices don't reply for icmp, so we need to have this line in
> our bb-hosts
>
> x.x.x.x    nokiavpn   # testip noconn snmp
>
> when we execute bbhostgrep snmp, it return no value. The only way
> actually is to put
>
> x.x.x.x    nokiavpn   # testip noping snmp
>
> but we would like to not have the conn test (we need testip as the boxes
> don't have a fqdn)
>
> 3)   hobbit client
>
> About the disk,
> The release 5.4 got devfs (2 entries show 100%), so the line with
> df should look like:  df -H -tnonfs,nullfs,cd9660,procfs,devfs
>
> Not quite sure about vmstat,
> In freebsd you can use -w for wait -c for count, so should it be
> vmstat -w 300 -c 2 instead of vmstat 300 2,
> also the sleep command in Freebsd take argument in second so sleep
> 5 is for 5 second , was it expected to wait 5 minutes ?
>
> Thanks for this great product,
> Laurent Grilli

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