[hobbit] two hobbit servers on the same machine

Marco Avvisano m.avvisano at mail.regione.toscana.it
Wed Mar 2 09:18:13 CET 2005


> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:01:06PM +0100, Marco Avvisano wrote:
> > > I would like to have two hobbit server on the same machine, running on
> > > different ports.
> > > One of these must send to the other (port 1984) the test results.
> >
> > hobbitd was never designed to do this. It receives messages, it
> > doesn't send them.
> >
> > If you want to forward incoming messages to one or more hobbit
> > servers, use the bbproxy (also part of the Hobbit package).
>
> I try to use bbproxy, but it send only the message status coming from the
> client
>
>
> > > I try to use the BBDISPLAY option
> >
> > which is 100% ignored by hobbit. BBDISPLAY, BBPAGER, BBNET and BBRELAY
> > are for BB - hobbit ignores them.

> I think BBRELAY may be important, specially when you are migrating to a
new
> server.
>
> sorry, i use BBDISPLAYS in the hobbitserver.cfg, but the problem is that
is
> not possible to specify the port,
> seems that it use the same port number.
>
> So you think is possible to make a configuration, using only one hobbit
> server, to have two http servers (private and pubblic)?
> I try to use alternate pageset to make this, but i have two problems:
> 1) in hobbit seems not support more the nodisp option in bb-hosts as bbgen
> 2) the bb2 page, report and others cgi, show all the entries of my
bb-hosts.
> You think it's possible to make a custom header, where the cgi  read a
> specific bb-hosts  file ?
>

I try to install two hobbit servers that shared the data directory. What do
you think about?
Do you think it's possible to force the restore status, for one server,
every xx seconds from the file hobbitd.chk?

thanks for help

Marco





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