[hobbit] can't get rid of old status with "*" in its name

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:16:51AM +0200, Charles Goyard wrote:

> Someday, I made a mistake and sent  a status column whose name is
> "tomcat_*". I then dropped the status with "bb drop". But each time I
> restart the hobbit server, the status pops up in purple state, again and
> again... I tried to manually delete most files that refer to this
> (history, rrd), either with the daemon running or not, but without any
> luck.
> 
> Where does the hobbitd keeps its status when shutting down ?

In the ~hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk file, but you cannot edit it while
Hobbit is running. So shutdown hobbit, remove the offending line (each
status is a separate line, and one line only) and restart Hobbit.

I'll look into why you cannot delete it.


Regards,
Henrik