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

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:12:10AM -0700, Bruce Lysik wrote:
> 
> > > (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.

ntpdate -u -q -p 2 HOSTNAME


Regards,
Henrik