[hobbit] allevents stops updating after trimhistory

[Rich Smrcina]

This was duplicated on SLES9, I killed hobbitd_history as suggested and 
new events appeared.

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:03:17PM -0400, John Glowacki wrote:
> 
>> On Solaris 9 hobbit 4.1.2 and RedHat 4 hobbit 4.2 I ran trimhistory and
>> noticed the next day that no events were listed at the bottom of the bb2
>> page. Working on my 4.2 test system I found hist/allevents stopped
>> updating after running trimhistory. Restarting hobbit got it working
>> again. Hobbit should not require any additional restarts after running
>> trimhistory or it should be mentioned in the man page.
> 
> I think you're right about this. The hobbitd_history module keeps the
> "allevents" file open while it is running, so trimhistory needs to
> signal that it should re-open the new (truncated) file. Killing
> hobbitd_history (it restarts automatically) fixes this, but that 
> shouldn't be needed.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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