[hobbit] unexpected green mails

[Robin Wood]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:15:41 +0100, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:19:38PM +0000, Robin Wood wrote:
> > I've just put rc4 on so I'll see if anything does get fixed
> 
> Do pickup the post-RC4 patch, it has the final fix for the green
> mails. http://www.hswn.dk/beta/post-RC4.patch
> 
> > two questions though, first why would things stop reporting?
> 
> Most common cause: The server was rebooted, and the client was not
> setup to restart automatically after a boot.
None of the boxes get rebooted, they are all live servers running
24/7, two with ISPs and one my own which I know the uptime of.

> 
> > I'm monitoring 3 different boxes, one local, 2 remote on different
> > hosts, what constitutes "stopping reporting"?
> 
> A status in Hobbit (and BB) has a lifetime - default is 30 minutes.
> Normally a status is refreshed every 5 minutes, so it stays "alive".
> If Hobbit sees that a status has not been updated for so long that its
> lifetime has been exceeded, it goes into the "stopped reporting"
> (purple) state.
> 
I've never seen anything actually go purple when the mails were sent
out but I don't watch it all the time so it could have done.

> > The other is why are some of my green entries smilies and others
> >  diamonds?
> 
> Smilies mean the color has changed within the past 24 hours.
> 
ok sounds reasonable that if it sends out the mails then it is because
it thinks the status has changed.

I was going to report that RC4 had fixed it as I'd had no mails but
then I got this:

 - Program crashed

Fatal signal caught!

on the hobbit-alert monitor so I guess that may be why I hadn't got any.

I'll put the other patch on and see what happens.

Robin

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