[hobbit] Ignored PURPLE status update from 127.0.0.1 for <unknown>.unknown

[Lee J. Imber]

On Jun 15, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:46:34AM -0400, Lee J. Imber wrote:
>>
>> When I start hobbit I get a few hundred lines of the following in /
>> var/log/hobbitd.log.
>>
>> How do I remove this?
>>
>>
>> 2006-06-15 14:45:05 Ignored PURPLE status update from 127.0.0.1  
>> for  <unknown>.unknown
>
> That's odd.
>
> The reason for the message is that Hobbit should never receive a  
> status
> message with color PURPLE. The purple status is generated  
> internally by
> the hobbitd daemon, so sending an explicit status update with color
> purple is not allowed.
>
> The only reason I can think of is that you're running an older version
> of the bbgen utility. In the old days, when I was still using the
> BB package, purple updates were generated as a result of building
> the webpages - so running "bbgen" would trigger a stream of purple
> updates. But that should not happen with the current Hobbit-versions
> of bbgen.
>
> The "<unknown>.unknown" means that the host- and testnames don't match
> anything Hobbit knows about.
>
> If you cannot figure out where this comes from, you can try running
> hobbitd with the "--trace-all" option; this will cause hobbitd to log
> all incoming messages to files in the tmp/ directory. You shouldn't  
> run
> with that enabled for very long, obviously.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>


Could this have something to do with the  Task bbnet terminated by  
signal 6 issue? This is the same box.

Lee

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