[hobbit] A funny thing happened on the way to the RC...............

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:48:08PM -0500, Brodie, Kent wrote:

> Fired up BB.    Then, everyone's pager went NUTS.    100 pages, times 4
> pagers.    WHOOOOPS.    The entire world had uh.....   "lost
> connectivity."
> 
> What had really happened of course is, that the hobbit userid couldn't
> run fping, since I had forgotten to suid the executable.    And yes, I
> did eventually find it in a log file, but...       But, this had the
> very nasty side effect of turning each and every connectivity icon RED.
> And then the alerts kicked in.....  And four Duracell batteries died.

Well, at least Hobbit managed to get your attention that there was some
configuration problem :-)

Seriously - you're right, it shouldn't do that. Such a problem should
end up with a red status in the "bbtest" column and nothing else. I'll
make sure it does that.

Sorry about the trouble!


Regards,
Henrik