[hobbit] Some newbie help

[David Gilmore]

Rob,

Thank you.  I must say that this is a great list.  BB lists are DEAD
compared to the activity here.  I love the fact that posts have replies
within minutes!

Thank you all!

Dave
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> hobbit-return-5351-david=stenhouseconsulting.com at hswn.dk 
> [mailto:hobbit-return-5351-david=stenhouseconsulting.com at hswn.
dk] On Behalf Of Rob Munsch
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:33 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Some newbie help
> 
> Once the server is up and running, for every other physical 
> machine you want to monitor, run configure-client (only).
> 
> You should know:
> the user set up that's going to run hobbit on the client - 
> hobbit works well :D the IP of the machine where the hobbit 
> server was installed
> 
> the configure-client will ask you for these things when it 
> runs and fill in the .cfg apropriately. If you tell it the 
> name of an existing user (like say, 'hobbit') it will find it 
> and stuff the client files into that homedir.
> 
> - fellow newbie
> 
> David Gilmore wrote:
> 
> > Adam,
> > I got it working with Jim's solution. When I setup hobbit I 
> simply ran 
> > ./configure. For future reference, and seeing as how I want 
> to install 
> > a client on an OS X machine, should I specify the 
> ./configure -server 
> > and -client?
> > Dave
> >
> >     
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> >     *From:* hobbit-return-5349-david=stenhouseconsulting.com at hswn.dk
> >     
> [mailto:hobbit-return-5349-david=stenhouseconsulting.com at hswn.dk]
> >     *On Behalf Of *Scheblein, Adam
> >     *Sent:* Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:43 PM
> >     *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> >     *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] Some newbie help
> >
> >     Otherwise, check your sudoers file and see if wheel is the 
> > following
> >
> >     %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
> >
> >     If it is, then when you setup hobbit server (doing the 
> ./configure
> >     -server) when it asks about the command for fping, put in sudo
> >     fping instead.
> >
> >     Adam
> >
> >     
> > 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> >
> >     *From:* Smith, Jim [mailto:JMSmith at stvincenthealth.com]
> >     *Sent:* Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:36 PM
> >     *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> >     *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] Some newbie help
> >
> >     **As root, you need to change the owner of "fping" to 
> root and the
> >     permissions to 4755.**
> >
> >     
> > 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> >
> >     *From:* David Gilmore [mailto:david at stenhouseconsulting.com]
> >     *Sent:* Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:29 PM
> >     *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> >     *Subject:* [hobbit] Some newbie help
> >
> >     Can anyone help out a Linux newb with this error?
> >
> >     Execution of '/usr/local/sbin/fping -Ae' failed - 
> program not suid
> >     root?
> >
> >     I am migrating our monitoring from BB installed on Windows to
> >     Hobbit on Linux. I was able to successfully install FC4, all of
> >     the Hobbit subcomponents, and Hobbit. Just this one error has me
> >     stumped. I thought I corrected it by adding hobbit to the WHEEL
> >     group on FC and then editing sudoers file to uncomment 
> WHEEL, but
> >     I still have the error.
> >
> >     David Gilmore
> >
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