[hobbit] safeguards

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 05:00:22PM -0500, Dan Vande More wrote:
> I just had an issue where one of servers was having a php issue. This
> filled up /var/log/messages really fast (/var/log on separate
> partition) - think gigs of logs in a few minutes. Naturally,  (bb)
> client is going to see this difference and want to store that in its
> diff file located in BBHOME/tmp. This, of course, filled up my root
> partition (Which we can blame on the shortsightedness of the person
> who partitioned this in the first place), exacerbating the problem.

Ouch - double trouble from the same root problem.

> In this particular situation, it was mostly the setup that caused this
> issue, but is it worth considering putting some sanity checks into the
> hobbit client to prevent this? Are they already there and I'm not
> aware of them?

The Hobbit client doesn't yet look at logfiles in any way, so it would
have avoided this issue and just sent in a critical disk alert - but 
that's really just pure luck.

I'll keep this in mind when I implement the Hobbit client's log
checking.


Regards,
Henrik