Hobbit client strange behavior

[Allan.Marillier at dana.com]

I have a strange problem with some clients, I would appreciate any 
suggestions if anyone has seen it or can give any ideas about the problem. 
I have a number of servers running RedHat AS 2.1, RedHat AS 3, and Fedora 
with my hobbit server on Fedora Core 4. I built the client on one AS 2.1 
server, then created a tarball and copied all files over to all other AS 
2.1 servers. More than half work with no problem, reporting memory, CPU, 
disk etc, but some don't report anything. I stopped the client and removed 
all files, then rebuilt the client using ./configure --client; make; make 
install  which worked with no errors. I see no errors in my hobbit server 
logs, and I can telnet from the clients to the server on port 1984 with no 
problem.

The hobbit client seems to be running properly, and I don't see anything 
unusual in the logs.

# ps -elf | grep hobbit
040 S hobbit   25382     1  0  75   0    -   363 schedu Aug31 ? 00:00:00 
/home/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitlaunch 
--config=/home/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaun
000 S hobbit   28365     1  0  85   5    -   561 wait4  08:37 ? 00:00:00 
sh -c vmstat 300 2 1>/home/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.28352 2>&1; mv 
/home/
000 S hobbit   28368 28365  0  82   5    -   363 schedu 08:37 ? 00:00:00 
vmstat 300 2
000 S root     28925 28788  0  76   0    -   436 pipe_w 08:41 pts/0 
00:00:00 grep hobbit

# pwd
/home/hobbit/client/logs

# ls -al
total 2
-rw-rw-r--    1 hobbit   hobbit        139 Aug 31 12:31 clientlaunch.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 hobbit   hobbit          6 Aug 31 12:31 clientlaunch.pid
-rw-rw-r--    1 hobbit   hobbit          0 Aug 31 12:31 hobbitclient.log

# cat clientlaunch.log
2005-08-31 12:31:45 hobbitlaunch starting
2005-08-31 12:31:45 Loading tasklist configuration from 
/home/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
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