[hobbit] unknown host question

[Olivier Beau]

ok, thank you for the explaination,  i have a better picture of this.


but, im still puzzled with with a certain scenario :
i have several bb-hosts files,
and once, one guy (who didnt know how to use vi) emptied the bb-hosts  
file without realizing..

that why i need of way to be alert of what hosts are disappearing  
from bb-hosts
so i'll write a script to compare histlog and bb-hosts (thank you for  
the tip).


Olivier





Le 31 juil. 05 à 10:04, Henrik Stoerner a écrit :

> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:19:54PM +0200, Olivier Beau wrote:
>
>> when i comment an entry in my bb-hosts file,
>> the host disappears from the display, which is normal.
>>
>> i haven't done a "drop hostname" yet,
>> and , i don't see any "unknown host" in my log files..
>>
>
> Hobbit does notice when you remove hosts from bb-hosts, and
> will automatically forget about hosts that disappear from
> bb-hosts. The "drop" command is only to clean up the files
> stored on disk (history logs and RRD files).
>
>
>> this brings me to the question : if someone deletes hosts in the  
>> bb-hosts file,
>> how do i know which hosts to "drop" ?
>>
>
> I think it should be the other way around: When someone
> deletes hosts from your bb-hosts file, they should know to
> do a "drop" command also.
>
> It doesn't do much harm if you don't do the "drop" command.
> Hobbit will simply ignore hosts that are not in the bb-hosts
> file, so they only take up a bit of space.
>
> If you must know what "orphan" hosts you have lying around,
> compare the list of hostnames from your bb-hosts file with the
> directory names in ~hobbit/data/histlogs/
>
>
> Henrik
>
>
> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to
> hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk
>
>
>