[hobbit] Odd problem with hobbit

Jeff Stuart jeff at myinternetservices.com
Tue Jun 20 19:24:27 CEST 2006


After a restart of hobbit and about waiting 10 to 15 minutes, the problem 
SEEMS to have gone away.  I guess the question then is, what caused this?

On Tuesday 20 June 2006 8:50 am, Jeff Stuart wrote:
> I am in the process of automating adding new hosts to our hobbit system.
>
> I've got a bb-hosts that looks like this:
>
> subpage myis My InternetServices Servers
>
> subparent myis myis-loc1 Location 1 Servers
> group-except bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync|http MyIS Location 1 Servers
> include myis-loc1-hosts
>
> Now my script inadvertantly left the myis-loc1-hosts file owned by root
> with perms of 600.  Therefore hobbit had a problem reading the hosts file
> temporarily.  However, NOW whenever I try to view a history item for the
> servers I get the error "No such host".  The URL is this:
>
> http://hobbit.myinternetservices.com/cgi-bin/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=127,0,0,
>1.info&IP=127.0.0.1&DISPLAYNAME=127.0.0.1
>
> (IP's changed to protect the innocent. :P)
>
> Yet other locations are perfectly fine.  What causes this error?  More
> importantly how do I fix this?
>
> This is on hobbit 4.1.2p1 on a Fedora Core 3 box.  I've verified that
> things like the conn file in the hist folder exist, etc.  I've also
> restarted hobbit.

-- 
Jeff Stuart
Network Admin 
MyInternetServices.com
1-800-300-HOST



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